+Ind. 59: 395. Ag. 17, ‘05. 60w.

“Something of a disappointment.”

N. Y. Times. 10: 380. Je. 10, ‘05. 680w.

“Clever and readable novel.”

+Outlook. 79: 908. Ap. 8, ‘05. 100w.

Kent, Arminie Thomas. Otia; ed. by Harold Hodge. [**]$1.25. Lane.

Some thirty essays, and critical reviews reprinted from various magazines, and about twenty poems, serious, sentimental and satiric, which were written between 1881 and the author’s death in 1903.

“The book intrinsically strikes us as a failure.”

Acad. 68: 80. Ja. 28, ‘05. 690w.

“In treating a writer who pays such attention to the small points of style, and who incidentally sneers at ‘the shallower sort of American scholars,’ an American reviewer feels justified in pointing out minute defects.”