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“Mr O’Brien passes in review the principal economic theories of the medieval schoolmen, not continuing the study farther than the beginning of the sixteenth century. In a concluding chapter he gives reasons for a favourable estimate of the medieval economic doctrine from the points of view of production, consumption and distribution.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup

“It is a truism (which unfortunately is rarely true) to say of a new book that it supplies a long felt want: but in the case of Dr O’Brien’s essay to say so would be strictly true. Mediæval economic theory has never before been discussed with the fullness it merited.”

Reviewed by C: A. Beard

“It is a work of learning and ability, concerned rather with the clear and concise presentation of doctrine than with the criticism of it.”

“The historian who peruses this book will put it down with mixed feelings of amusement over the wordy contest and of despair at the unfamiliarity the combatants display with the alphabet of historical science.”

ODELL, GEORGE CLINTON DENSMORE.Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving. 2v il *$12 Scribner 822.3

20–19676

“Professor Odell has undertaken to do for all Shakespeare’s plays, tragedies and comedies, histories and dramatic romances, what has hitherto been attempted for two of the tragedies only, in Miss Wood’s ‘Stage history of Richard III,’ and in Brereton’s rather sketchy account of the various performances of ‘Hamlet.’ He has organized his two volumes in eight chronological divisions: the age of Betterton (1660–1710); the age of Cibber (1710–1742); the age of Garrick (1742–1776); the age of Kemble (1776–1817); the leaderless age (1817–1837); The age of Macready (1837–1843); the age of Phelps and Charles Kean (1843–1879), and the age of Irving (1879–1902). Not only does he give us what is to a certain extent a history of the theatres of London, he also supplies us with what is almost (if not quite) a history of the superb evolution of the art of scene painting.”—N Y Times

“Students should be grateful to Professor Odell for the painstaking manner in which he has traced the fate of Shakespeare on the English stage. Mr Odell has attacked the subject with freshness and zest. His enthusiasm never seems to flag.... Admire his work as I do, I am convinced that had Mr Odell been more thoroughly in sympathy with the new ‘unrest’ in the theater, he would have seen more clearly certain points relating the past with the present.” M. J. Moses

“No better medium than the work of Professor George C. D. Odell has thus far been provided to apprehend the gradual evolution of stage decoration, costume, and attention to historic accuracy.” H. H. Furness, jr

“It is no dry-as-dust chronicle that he has here given us. It is a readable book that he proffers, a book abounding in apt anecdote, in illuminating quotation and in genial comment. Although the author has had to correct many blunders and many misstatements of many predecessors, he spares us the acrimony of controversy.” Brander Matthews

O’DONNELL, ELLIOT.Menace of spiritualism. *$1.50 (3½c) Stokes 134

20–6366

The author of the book, himself an investigator in the field of psychic research and a believer in spontaneous manifestations of the spirits of the dead, condemns the practice of spiritualism, with its mediumistic invocations of spirits as a vice. Its dangers are many. From the point of view of orthodox Christianity it menaces faith and morality alike; from that of the medical profession it is injurious to health; from that of the greater number of most eminent scientists it is a sham; and from the point of view of common sense it is a hotch-potch of imbecility, gullibility, and roguery. Contents: Foreword by Father Bernard Vaughan; “Spiritualism”—what is it? How spiritualism tries to distort the Old Testament; Spiritualism and the New Testament; Spiritualism and the churches; The phenomenal side of spiritualism and its effect on the health; The danger of fraud of all kinds at séances.

“He delivers some shrewd blows, and in a popular manner sets forth a strong case against spiritualists and their operations.”

“Such protests are welcome, however much they fall short of the sanction of a high consistency; it is hardly to be expected that a critic of Mr O’Donnell’s electric temper will find favor with those who see in psychical research a far wider menace and a subtler attack upon the fundamentals of sound thinking. Yet to part of the composite clientèle from which latter-day recruits for the occult are gathered, this earnest word of warning may prove helpful.” Joseph Jastrow

O’DUFFY, EIMAR.Wasted island. *$2 (1c) Dodd

20–16927

A story of Ireland and the Irish movement culminating in the Easter rebellion. Bernard Lascelles, son of a successful Dublin doctor, is brought up in ignorance of his country’s history. In fact it is part of his father’s purpose to keep him in ignorance, fearing that the boy may take after his uncle Christopher Reilly, who died fighting England on the side of the Boers. Bernard is sent to an English school, but in spite of his father’s efforts is drawn into the Nationalist and later into the Sinn Fein movements, a letter left by his uncle Christopher to be read on his twenty-first birthday proving the turning point in his life. A very different bringing up is that of Stephen Ward, whose father, a discouraged Fenian, hopes that his son may never wreck his life in the hopeless cause but does not deny him knowledge. Both young men oppose the Easter uprising but both are involved in it. Bernard is wrecked by it but Stephen escapes. “‘And now,’ said Michael Ward to his son, ‘now that everything has turned out as I told you it would, what do you mean to do?’ ‘I suppose,’ replied Stephen, ‘we must begin all over again.’”

“The story is long and the plot complicated but it is well told and the interest is sustained to the close.”

“Although, as an artistic piece of work, the book leaves much to be desired, its vigour and sincerity save it from the category of the mediocre.” L. M. R.

“It is one-sided and its heroes are not very attractive characters, but it is interesting and informing.”

“Mr O’Duffy is refreshingly free from didacticism. He allows the facts to explain for themselves, and does not make any indictment in the bitter, devastating manner of Brinsley McNamara’s ‘The clanking of chains.’ Regarded as a human document this book should be of great interest and assistance to readers in America who want to understand the Ireland which confronts them in alarming headlines.” E. A. Boyd

“The animus of the book as a whole is unmistakable. Hate for England rather than love for Ireland is the mainspring of this active ‘patriotism.’” H. W. Boynton

OEMLER, MRS MARIE (CONWAY).Purple heights. *$2 (2c) Century

20–17411

The hero is Peter Devereaux Champneys, a boy of eleven when the story opens. The scene is South Carolina where Peter lives in a four-roomed cabin with his mother, who runs a sewing machine to keep herself and Peter alive. Peter, who is considered a dunce in school, spends all his odd moments making pictures. One day he sketches the Red admiral—the beautiful butterfly that alighted on the milkweed pod by the side of the road—and the Red admiral proves to be his good fairy. His mother dies and Peter brings himself up, with the aid of Emma Campbell, a faithful negress. An unknown uncle appears out of the West and offers to send Peter to Paris, and so anxious is Peter to get to Paris that he accepts the uncle’s strange terms, marriage with an unknown Nancy Simms. His first sight of Nancy Simms is disconcerting, for she is a red-haired virago, but he runs away to Paris immediately after the ceremony and forgets her. In Paris he becomes famous and in the meantime Nancy grows up to be a beautiful woman and all ends well.

“Excellent, forceful writing appears on the earlier pages. Soon the benevolent persons enter, one after another, and they reflect urban life. The naturalness and sincerity of the story lessen.” R. D. W.

“A new author, writing real literature, is Mrs Oemler.” Lilian Bell

“The author knows the South, and her understanding of the black man’s mind is demonstrated on nearly every page. ‘The purple heights’ is a worthy successor to Mrs Oemler’s first success, ‘Slippy McGee.’”

“When Peter grows up and goes to Paris and becomes famous the charm vanishes and interest lags. It is in her beginnings that the author is most successful.”

“Decidedly inferior to ‘Slippy McGee,’ but nevertheless an entertaining story, with some delightful passages describing the hero’s youth.”

OGILVIE, PAUL MORGAN.International waterways. *$3 Macmillan 387

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“‘International waterways’ is a history of the development of maritime enterprise. It sets forth the efforts of certain nations to secure the exclusive enjoyment of the seas. The first part of Mr Ogilvie’s book concludes with a critical discussion of the question of the freedom of commercial navigation. Part II is composed of a reference manual, where is to be found a list of all the international inland waterways of the world, together with the treaties and laws governing the same.”—Springf’d Republican

Reviewed by A. F. Hershey

“A valuable reference work. If there is any fault to be found with Mr Ogilvie’s work it is a fault perhaps inseparable from the breadth of the task and the limited size of the volume. The author has neither the time nor the space to pause for that wealth of illustration which the reader would like to demand. But he constantly cites his sources and the reader who is interested in more detailed study may turn to them.” G. H. C.

“The international lawyer, the historian, and the general student of modern problems will each be grateful to Mr Ogilvie for his helpful work.” M. W. Tyler

“Mr Ogilvie’s thoughtful treatise is very timely.” L. J. B.

“A scholarly, well-written history.”

“The bibliography of treaties is likely to be of much practical use in coming years and represents a great deal of most fruitful labour. The bibliography of works dealing with the subject, though not exhaustive, will be helpful. An excellent index concludes a very thorough piece of work.”

O’HIGGINS, HARVEY JERROLD.Secret springs. *$2 (3c) Harper 130

20–19287

The author outlines the system of a Dr X who has “largely uncovered the mechanism by which the mind affects health” and who has evolved this system of mental hygiene according to which he treats his patients and directs them to safeguard themselves. It is based on the Freudian theory of psychoanalysis from which Dr X deviates and upon which he enlarges to some extent by not emphasising the sex element with the same insistence. The contents consider suppressions: In love and marriage; In health; In childhood; In happiness and success; In Theodore Roosevelt; In character and conduct; In dreams; In religion.

“Mr O’Higgins is agreeably free of Freudian and sexual obsessions.”

“It is a very cheerful book, not only because it escapes what the writer calls the ‘unspeakable’ abstruseness and laboratory gruesomeness of the expositions of Freud and his followers, but also because everybody gets cured.” Renee Darmstadter

O’KELLY, SEUMAS.Golden barque; and The weaver’s grave. *$1.75 (4c) Putnam

The longest tale in this collection, “The weaver’s grave,” describes an ancient graveyard “Cloon na Morav,” the meadow of the dead. So ancient is it that to have a right of burial there amounts to a pedigree. It is only the weaver, newly dead, and one survivor, Malachi Roohan, the cooper, who still have that right. On two other ancient inhabitants of the town devolves the task of finding the weaver’s grave. It is a well-nigh hopeless quest, related with insight and weird humor. The rest of the book, under the heading “The golden barque” consists of: Michael and Mary; Hike and Calcutta; The haven; Billy the clown; The derelict; The man with the gift.

“Slight plots, delightful people and the characteristic Celtic humor.”

“‘The golden barque’ is so finely and purely Irish that it is doubtful whether a child could make the most of it. But these are tales with so much literary and poetic quality that it would be unfortunate not at least to give the child a chance.”

“There is an indescribable charm in these two Irish stories, which is attributable to the manner in which they are told, rather than to any extraordinary merit in plot and action.”

“I shall recall the book for the long sketch with which it begins, but which for obvious reasons is not the title-story: ‘The weaver’s grave,’ a comedy most limited in scene and accessory, but rich in content and perfect in form.” H. W. Boynton

“His characters are new, not picked from the crowd but found here and there in Ireland with individuality stamped all over them. They are not very important characters, but such as they are they challenge attention.”

“If all these little stories were as beautifully told as the first, the set would be a rare delight. They vary in merit, and usually fall when Mr O’Kelly relies on detail, to rise again when he opens his inner vision.”

OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS.Story-telling ballads. il *$3 Houghton 821.08

20–21433

The anthology contains seventy-seven of the ancient ballads and narrative poems such as were sung by minstrels and recited by gaffers and gammers in days of old. They are intended for boys and girls from twelve to fifteen years of age, and contain “romances, hero-tales, faërie legends and adventures of knights and lovely damsels. They sing of proud and wicked folk, of gentle and loyal ones, of laidley worms, witches, mermaids with golden combs, sad maidens, glad ones and fearless lovers, mosstroopers, border-rievers, and kings in disguise.” (Foreword) There are four color-prints, and the appendix contains suggestions for teachers, a glossary and indexes of subjects, authors, titles and first lines. The contents are grouped under the headings: The salt blue seas; A-harrowing o’ the border; Brave hearts and proud; Lays o’ faërie; Lays o’ wonder; Merry gestes; Sad gestes; Pretty mays and knights so bold; For Halloween and midsummer eve; All under the greenwood tree; O’ pilgrimage and souls so strong.

“Miss Olcott has selected her ballads with good taste, and the indexes and glossary are excellent.”

OLCOTT, HARRIET MEAD.Whirling king, and other French fairy tales. il *$1.50 Holt

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Ten fairy stories adapted from the French and illustrated in silhouette. The titles are: Prince Rainbow; Bleuette’s butterfly; The frozen heart; The elf-dog; The whirling king; The magic mirror; The queen’s treasure; The stupid princess; The flying wizard; The forest fairy.

OLDMEADOW, ERNEST JAMES.Coggin *$1.75 (1½c) Century

20–818

The meeting of two human spirits for mutual uplift, development and regeneration is the theme of the story. The Reverend Oswald Redding, rector of a fashionable Episcopal church in Bulford-on-Deme, discovers in little Harry Coggin, son of a rags-and-bone man, a prodigy in intellect and spirit. In awarding him a scholarship at the grammar school, he has thrown a bombshell into the society of notables and inflamed the class hatred of the lowly. The story records Harry’s brief and distressing career at the school and shows how his rare gifts and spirit pierce the crust of the rector’s conventional Christianity, turning him from the well-worn ruts of his career to find God along new paths. Harry in turn receives the courage, the incentive, the divine impulse for his genius, from the rector’s enveloping love.

“The clever, respectful little boy, in this bit of his life, is perhaps a less interesting study than the more substantial figure of the rector. The case of the misuse of endowments and charities is intelligently argued; but we cannot believe in the ‘conversion’ of the socialist house-painter, and the definition of agnosticism would not satisfy an intelligent schoolboy.”

“This strange, extraordinarily attractive little personality is Mr Oldmeadow’s discovery, and from the moment we meet him talking to George Placker we are prepared to follow him anywhere he may like to take us. The novel as a whole lacks proportion. The closing scenes, with the rector for principal figure, are far too drawn out.” K. M.

“A quiet picture, very life-like, appealing to readers who do not demand much plot.”

“The story is the result of a literary craftsmanship worthy of notice.”

“No doubt the book is to be classed as propaganda; but propaganda is seldom so engagingly presented. The book has faults, the more irritating because they could have been easily avoided had the author exerted himself a little more. Nevertheless, its vitality is deep-rooted and its appeal is wide.”

“The first of a trilogy evidently ambitious of being the English ‘Jean Christophe.’ Though of fine craftsmanship and possessing a certain unique charm, not on the same artistic plane.”

“The story has charm and a warm subdued color and a savor of the earth and of old houses in forgotten sunshine.”

“Coggin is, to tell the truth, a fearful prig, and the reader must have a patient way with priggish and humorless virtue to bear with him till the end of the present narrative. The story is told with a certain skill and polish; but it is not very clearly worth telling, for all that.”

OLGIN, MOISSAYE JOSEPH.Guide to Russian literature (1820–1917). $3 (3½c) Harcourt 891.7

20–7675

Because Russian literature reproduces the spiritual struggles of men and goes down to the very bottom of everyday existence to scrutinize the economic, the social and the political life of the country, its study becomes valuable not only as an art but as the surest road to the understanding of the Russian people and conditions. The author therefore has selected from the literary productions of the nineteenth and twentieth century only those which have value for the present either on account of their artistic qualities, or as representing some aspect of Russian life. The contents are in three chronological groups, each preceded by a general survey of the era. Part I—The growth of a national literature; Part II—The “modernists”; Part III—The recent tide. The book also contains a list of pronunciations of authors’ names, an appendix on juvenile literature in Russia, and an index.

“This might well be called an inspired booklist. It answers the question ‘What shall I read to understand Russian character and Russian life?’”

“The grouping of the material in this rather ‘sketchy’ volume is somewhat inadequate. Authors whose influence was very small are at times given more attention and space than is seemly in comparison to those who are very characteristic and important both from the historical and psychological point of view.”

“It is fresh in its treatment, original in its scheme and far more intelligently comprehensive than any other available handbook.”

“Mr Olgin combines an initiate’s grasp of the political and social background of his country with an intense and catholic appreciation of its literature and his command of incisive and pictorial English might be envied by writers to whom the tongue is native.” Jacob Zeitlin

“The book is expressly not devised as a ‘history,’ yet the American reader or student of Russian literature will find it of much greater value as a history than any so-called history he can lay his hands on in English.” Clarendon Ross

“In view of the number of authors dealt with, it is only natural the individual sections should prove more or less uneven. Some are splendid; others are far from satisfactory. The work as a whole is an excellent production.”

“That quality of compactness which one demands in a handbook is not invariably adhered to.”

“Mr Olgin has managed to convey an exceptionally colorful and rich picture of each of these writers, with a good deal of detail crowded into a small space.”

OLIVER, MAUDE I. G.First steps in the enjoyment of pictures. il *$1.50 (4c) Holt 750

20–4272

A book designed for boys and girls which may also be helpful to other beginners in picture study. The fifty-five illustrations show examples from American museums and art galleries, and are limited to the work of American painters. One aim of the book is “to furnish a background for the reading of descriptive books on art.” Consequently the author has taken pains to introduce all the accepted art terms and phrases and to make their meaning clear. Contents: Media (two chapters); Classification; Color; Draughtsmanship; Values; Perspective; Composition; Technique; Character; Conclusion—A glimpse into fairyland (a suggested pageant).

“Any boy or girl above the age of twelve may use this book to advantage and will find it interesting and suggestive as well as instructive.”

OLMSTEAD, FLORENCE.Stafford’s Island. *$1.75 (2c) Scribner

20–9141

Clarissa Stafford had grown up a lonely child on a lonely island, off the Georgia coast, with her apathetic, hermit grandfather, Peter Stafford. Her loneliness had developed occult powers in her and she sometimes felt certain that she saw the reflection of a man in the mirror of the drawing room where the picture of her grandmother, whose namesake and image she was, hung over the fireplace. When Clarissa is twenty a young man is washed ashore in a storm who resembles the vision. It all comes out in the story how Henry Thorne is the grandson of the man who painted Clarissa Stafford, and how that accounts for the picture and then ran off with the older the mysterious affinity that draws the living young people irresistibly towards each other.

“Miss Olmstead has, with appealing artistry, woven a fascinating love story.”

OMORI, ANNIE SHEPLEY, and KOCHI DOI, trs. Diaries of court ladies of old Japan. il *$5 Houghton 895

21–128

An introduction to the book by Amy Lowell describes the time and environment in which the ladies of these diaries wrote and gives a biographical sketch of each of them. The time was the middle of the Heian period which lasted from 794 to 1186, when Japan was thoroughly civilized, even “a little overcivilized, a little too fined down and delicate” and when women occupied an advanced position—they were educated, allowed a share of inheritance and had their own houses. Much of the best literature of Japan has been written by women. A common characteristic of the diaries is delicacy, rare and exquisite taste and skill in poetic composition. The ladies are Sarashina, Murasaki Shikibu and Izumi Shikibu. The illustrations are from Japanese prints, some in color, and the appendix contains an Old Japanese calendar and a chronological table of events connected with the diaries.

“A delightful curiosity and an attractively made book.”

“The literary quality of the three diaries is extremely high. They would all be eminently readable if written only yesterday. Added to the joyment of their intrinsic merits is the fact that they present a faithful picture of the court life of the times as well as some singularly striking contrasts between three women of totally different temperaments.”

Reviewed by E. L. Pearson

O’NEILL, EUGENE GLADSTONE.Beyond the horizon; a play in three acts. *$1.50 Boni & Liveright 812

20–8634

“The tragedy of the misfit. Robert Mayo, a young farm born dreamer who longs to travel ‘beyond the horizon,’ gives up going to sea when he finds out that Ruth Atkins loves him but refuses to sail with him. His brother Andrew, as well fitted to be a farmer as Robert is unfitted to be a farmer becomes a sailor. Robert marries Ruth, but they soon cease to love each other and Robert, wasted by tuberculosis, crawls out of the house to die ‘alone—in a ditch by the open road—watching the sun rise.’”—Wis Lib Bul

“A powerful, grim ironic tragedy.”

“Mr O’Neill is most successful with such primitive types as Ruth. When he approaches a complex nature like Robert’s, his presentation is weaker. ‘Beyond the horizon’ is a good drama. It might have been a great one but for two defects that create and sustain each other, namely the theatre-consciousness of the playwright, and the fact that he is a too anxious father to his brood.” Lola Ridge

“The appeal of ‘Beyond the horizon’ is instantaneous, but lasting. Never is it reduced to cleverness; never does it compromise with the American audience. Its truth is too profound and too soul-stirring to carry in one eye a smile, in the other a tear.”

ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).Bridge of kisses. il *$2 (2½c) Dodd

20–17083

A story as sentimental as its title. Josephine Dale becomes engaged to a very worthy young man, Hilary Sykes, but obviously the wrong man for her. She frankly admits to herself that she is only doing it to give her mother peace of mind about her future. A young bridge-builder comes into the neighborhood on an engineering project, and, as his mother and hers had been girlhood friends, she takes a friendly interest in him, and that interest finally prompts her to find a wife for him. Her efforts do not meet with signal success, since it is obvious to everyone but Joey herself that the bridge-builder was made for her and her alone. A happy ending is inevitable, and Mr Sykes is consoled with a more suitable mate, so all is well.

ONIONS, BERTA (RUCK) (MRS OLIVER ONIONS).Sweethearts unmet. il *$1.75 (2c) Dodd

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In the form of separate stories, confessions, so to speak, a young girl and a young man each in turn pours out the story of his and her life, of their longings, their love hunger and their ideals. They were meant for each other, they had dreamt and speculated about each other, but seemed actually destined to live lives apart till luck and chance brought them, when it was almost, but not quite, too late, into each other’s arms. On this the author philosophizes: many young people in the large cities who are meant for each other never meet and end by marrying the wrong one. Her remedy is, not social centres, or matrimonial bureaus but a more hearty, understanding welcome of young people in individual homes, the creation of an entirely new atmosphere for the possibilities and needs of youth.

“A sentimental, very light love story of the kind that will please young readers.”

“She proceeds to write the story, in her own pretty, quaint way, and a capital story it is—wholesome as a breath of spring.”

OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.Devil’s paw. il *$1.90 (3c) Little

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Miss Catherine Abbeway, the heroine of the story, is a wonderful woman. By birth half Russian and half English and an aristocrat, her sympathies are entirely with the oppressed and with labor. She belongs to a secret labor organization whose object it is to bring about an early peace with the Central powers. Of this organization or council all but two, and they the leaders, are honest men. The two are scoundrels in the pay of Germany. Catherine undertakes, at great personal risk, to intercept messages from alleged German socialists for the council. Julian Orden, son of a peer, and anonymous author of peace articles that are creating a stir, discovers her in the act and takes the documents from her. But, to protect her in a compromising situation, he proclaims her his fiancée. Later when, after some breathless days, Catherine has discovered the sinister plot of the pseudo labor leaders and has saved England and the Allies from disaster, the pretense becomes fact.

“One of his poorer stories.”

“The novel is not without ingenuity, and contains one or two fairly dramatic scenes; but it is not so entertaining a story as ‘The great impersonation.’”

“‘The devil’s paw’ is far from being his best work.”

“The story cannot be classed among the best that Mr Oppenheim has written, but will, nevertheless, stimulate a considerable degree of interest.”

OPPENHEIM, EDWARD PHILLIPS.Great impersonation. il *$1.75 (2c) Little

20–629

Baron Leopold von Ragastein had been educated in England, at Eton and Oxford. While there he had had a double in a school mate, Sir Everard Dominey. Later they meet again in a German colony in East Africa where von Ragastein is now military commander. The latter is a perfect type of German efficiency and fitness, while the other, with a growing drink habit upon him, is generally at outs with life. They exchange confidences and when the German receives sudden orders to go to England on a secret mission he resolves to go as Sir Everard Dominey after first making away with the real Sir Everard. There he faces many delicate situations, but all goes well and the tasks imposed by the German government grow with the impostor’s daring. When the war breaks out he out-does himself by enlisting in the Norfolk yeomanry and at the very end comes the startling disclosure that it is after all the real Sir Everard who had not been so drunk in Africa “but that he was able to pull himself up when the great incentive came.”

“A good Oppenheim book.”

“The story pursues its course, sometimes in a lively fashion and sometimes sluggishly, but always moving towards a goal of surprise that will doubtless astonish many a reader. Its characters have in them something less fairylike and more human than is customary with Mr Oppenheim.” E. F. E.

“‘The great impersonation’ is a very decided improvement on the productions which have recently been flowing from the excessively prolific pen of Mr E. Phillips Oppenheim. The main idea is a good one and many of the details are well managed.”

“Mr Oppenheim certainly springs a genuine surprise upon his readers in the outcome of this story. Unfortunately, it is often the case that things that are novel and surprising are not very convincing, and that is true here.”

Reviewed by Doris Webb

“The plot is exceedingly ingenious.”

“He taxes one’s credulity, however, in asking the acceptance of the Englishman’s magic rejuvenation and revolutionary alterations in character and habit.”

ORCZY, EMMUSKA (MRS MONTAGUE BARSTOW) baroness.His Majesty’s well-beloved. *$1.75 (2c) Doran

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