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Goods in stock: A line of tennis goods, (last year's most popular rackets at reduced prices). Spalding's and Mahn's base-balls, bats, dumb-bells, Indian clubs. Also in stock Mr. Barrett Wendell's new book "Duchess Emilia...
...Advertiser criticises Mr. Wendell's new book very favorably...
...Duchess Emilia," Mr. Wendell has given us a book which is strangely at odds with the tendency of novel writing at the present time. Don Quixote, armed for the fray, would present no stranger figure in our streets than does this romance among the novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means...
...plot of the book is fanciful and strong. Many of the situations are dramatic and intense in feeling, and the fantastic moods of the central character, Richard Beverly, are admirably worked out. But although, as a whole, we heartily commend the plot, there are a number of instances where, it seems to us, its development has been uneven and almost weak. The incidents are not always up to the pitch of dramatic strength which the plot requires, and the book seems at times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several...
Goods in stock: A line of tennis goods, (last year's most popular rackets at reduced prices). Spalding's and Mahn's base-balls, bats, dumb-bells, Indian clubs. Also in stock Mr. Barrett Wendell's new book "Duchess Emelia...