A Few Press Opinions onThe Professor’s ExperimentBy MRS. HUNGERFORD (The Duchess)12mo, Cloth, $1.25; Paper Covers, 50 Cents
A Few Press Opinions on
The Professor’s Experiment
By MRS. HUNGERFORD (The Duchess)
12mo, Cloth, $1.25; Paper Covers, 50 Cents
The Watchman“The ‘experiment,’ which gives name to the story, is a weird one and picturesquely presented, reminding one faintly of the old French story of the ‘Broken Ear.’ It turns the red light briskly on the hero and heroine, who, having been thus vividly introduced to us and to each other, proceed to the business of the occasion by falling in love with each other and entangling themselves in divers nets of embarrassing circumstances, settling away from the storm to a peaceful horizon of marriage at last. It has become necessary, in these days, to indicate the exceptional and welcome fact that this is a pure story; painting cheery pictures of normal domestic life, and opening no side doors to encourage the stealthy adventures of a prurient fancy. It is a novel, strictly speaking, involving neither sermon nor stump speech. It offers entertainment only, but it gives what it offers; resting the tired brain and leaving no poison in the blood.”Evening Bulletin“It is a capital story of an Irish savant, who, like the magicians of mediæval days, passed his years in concocting a draught to put his subjects to sleep. Fortunately a beautiful girl of eighteen is found insensible on the professor’s doorstep. She becomes his patient, enters upon a long sleep, and, in the ‘large awakening,’ learns that she is heiress to an immense fortune and the professor’s granddaughter.”Indianapolis Journal“‘The Professor’s Experiment’ is the title of a new book by Mrs. Hungerford (The Duchess). It is of a somewhat more elaborate and ambitious character than this writer’s recent stories, and shows a return to her earlier manner. The heroine is the impulsive, warm-hearted young Irish girl with whom all Mrs. Hungerford’s readers are well acquainted, but of whom, in her various phases and reappearances they do not tire.”
The Watchman
“The ‘experiment,’ which gives name to the story, is a weird one and picturesquely presented, reminding one faintly of the old French story of the ‘Broken Ear.’ It turns the red light briskly on the hero and heroine, who, having been thus vividly introduced to us and to each other, proceed to the business of the occasion by falling in love with each other and entangling themselves in divers nets of embarrassing circumstances, settling away from the storm to a peaceful horizon of marriage at last. It has become necessary, in these days, to indicate the exceptional and welcome fact that this is a pure story; painting cheery pictures of normal domestic life, and opening no side doors to encourage the stealthy adventures of a prurient fancy. It is a novel, strictly speaking, involving neither sermon nor stump speech. It offers entertainment only, but it gives what it offers; resting the tired brain and leaving no poison in the blood.”
“The ‘experiment,’ which gives name to the story, is a weird one and picturesquely presented, reminding one faintly of the old French story of the ‘Broken Ear.’ It turns the red light briskly on the hero and heroine, who, having been thus vividly introduced to us and to each other, proceed to the business of the occasion by falling in love with each other and entangling themselves in divers nets of embarrassing circumstances, settling away from the storm to a peaceful horizon of marriage at last. It has become necessary, in these days, to indicate the exceptional and welcome fact that this is a pure story; painting cheery pictures of normal domestic life, and opening no side doors to encourage the stealthy adventures of a prurient fancy. It is a novel, strictly speaking, involving neither sermon nor stump speech. It offers entertainment only, but it gives what it offers; resting the tired brain and leaving no poison in the blood.”
Evening Bulletin
“It is a capital story of an Irish savant, who, like the magicians of mediæval days, passed his years in concocting a draught to put his subjects to sleep. Fortunately a beautiful girl of eighteen is found insensible on the professor’s doorstep. She becomes his patient, enters upon a long sleep, and, in the ‘large awakening,’ learns that she is heiress to an immense fortune and the professor’s granddaughter.”
“It is a capital story of an Irish savant, who, like the magicians of mediæval days, passed his years in concocting a draught to put his subjects to sleep. Fortunately a beautiful girl of eighteen is found insensible on the professor’s doorstep. She becomes his patient, enters upon a long sleep, and, in the ‘large awakening,’ learns that she is heiress to an immense fortune and the professor’s granddaughter.”
Indianapolis Journal
“‘The Professor’s Experiment’ is the title of a new book by Mrs. Hungerford (The Duchess). It is of a somewhat more elaborate and ambitious character than this writer’s recent stories, and shows a return to her earlier manner. The heroine is the impulsive, warm-hearted young Irish girl with whom all Mrs. Hungerford’s readers are well acquainted, but of whom, in her various phases and reappearances they do not tire.”
“‘The Professor’s Experiment’ is the title of a new book by Mrs. Hungerford (The Duchess). It is of a somewhat more elaborate and ambitious character than this writer’s recent stories, and shows a return to her earlier manner. The heroine is the impulsive, warm-hearted young Irish girl with whom all Mrs. Hungerford’s readers are well acquainted, but of whom, in her various phases and reappearances they do not tire.”