| + | Critic. 47: 577. D. ‘05. 80w. |
[*] “A parody of Mr. Hornung’s stories of Raffles, the amateur cracksman, very badly done.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 527. O. 28, ‘05. 15w. |
Bangs, John Kendrick. Worsted man: a musical play for amateurs. [†]50c. Harper.
Eight lonely women at a summer hotel in New Hampshire attempt to get even with Fate for not sending a single youth their way. They construct a worsted man from an afghan, stuffing it with cotton. A certain famous spring-water brings this man of wool to life, and he becomes an unmanageable flirt.
| N. Y. Times. 10: 349. My. 27, ‘05. 210w. | ||
| Pub. Opin. 39: 61. Jl. 8, ‘05. 80w. |
Banks, Nancy Huston. Little hills. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
Phoebe Rowan is widowed shortly after the ceremony which joins her in a loveless marriage with the village minister. It becomes a duty to her to call to her “wren’s nest” the destitute parents of her husband,—a father who is a cripple and a drunkard, and a step-mother “austere, ignorant, narrow-minded, with a faculty for ruling all around her with an iron will.” The story follows a thorny path with a triumphant turn out into the open.
“It is not given to her, as it is to Mr. Howells, to write an interesting story about nothing. The various characters to which Mrs. Banks introduces us are not convincing.”
| — + | Ath. 1905, 2: 171. Ag. 5. 260w. |