. Review of reviews and world's work. rm-swept country-side of luarsh andisland, and yet to convince the reader inevitably thatthese things happened in the seventeenth century,—this is assuredly no small achievement in literary Una L. Silberrad is to be congratulated upon hervolume of stories, The Wedding of the Lady of Lov-ell (Doubleday, Page). Something of the dream-spiritof Norse saga and folklore dwells in the stories, so fullare they of atmosphere, of poetry, of true of genuine humanity, too, in the sturdy figure ofTobiah, the Dissenter; in the figure of Priscilla,
. Review of reviews and world's work. rm-swept country-side of luarsh andisland, and yet to convince the reader inevitably thatthese things happened in the seventeenth century,—this is assuredly no small achievement in literary Una L. Silberrad is to be congratulated upon hervolume of stories, The Wedding of the Lady of Lov-ell (Doubleday, Page). Something of the dream-spiritof Norse saga and folklore dwells in the stories, so fullare they of atmosphere, of poetry, of true of genuine humanity, too, in the sturdy figure ofTobiah, the Dissenter; in the figure of Priscilla, whostole from her stern guardians house on a May morn-ing and found love; of Mr. Smallpages John, thebooksellers apprentice, dreaming of a star-like lady . 76-^ THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REK/EIV OF RE^IEIVS. who was not for him : of the beast-like, superstitionsmen of the marshes who. in tlie time of the great sick-ness, swore that tlie Lady Phacida was Clmma, theSpirit of tlie Plague. If Mr. Maurice Hewlett caredless for color and pas-. UNA SILBERRAD. sion, more for thesubtler poetry ofmournful Northernlandscapes, he mightwell have writtenThe Wedding of theLady of Lovell. The time has prob-ablj come when it isno longer tonotice in detail themore or less conven-tional historical nov-el, even when it is ascompetent and ashighly recommendedas the late George Gis-sings Verauilda(E. P. Button). Loveand intrigue and clash of armor still entertain a numerous public. Oneneed not recommend these elements ; to deprecate themis hardly worth while. The Golden Hope, by R. (Macmillan), is a romance of the time of Alexan-der the Great, not without signs of ability and , by Walter S. Cramp (Little, Brown), is aromance of the reign of Tiberius. It recalls QuoVadis, and turns pale in comparison. Judith and Hol-ofernes form the subject of Judith Triumphant, byThompson Buchanan (Harpers). In the Name ofLiberty, by Owen Johnson (Century), is a thousand-and-first Sto
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