DAILY NEWS. It abounds in epigrams, and is full of sentiment and satire. The characters are drawn with a deft touch, the dialogue is swift and pointed, the setting is delicately artificial.... The book is full of felicities of phrase, of shafts of wit. DAILY TELEGRAPH. The style will be found to exhibit the same polish and frigid glitter as before. It is the story which is so poor and disappointing.... Nor is the character-drawing very felicitous, for although John Oliver Hobbes says very shrewd things about her personages ...
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DAILY NEWS. It abounds in epigrams, and is full of sentiment and satire. The characters are drawn with a deft touch, the dialogue is swift and pointed, the setting is delicately artificial.... The book is full of felicities of phrase, of shafts of wit. DAILY TELEGRAPH. The style will be found to exhibit the same polish and frigid glitter as before. It is the story which is so poor and disappointing.... Nor is the character-drawing very felicitous, for although John Oliver Hobbes says very shrewd things about her personages, she seems hardly to have interpreted them to herself. If only this indubitably clever writer would forego the luxury of writing for a twelve-month! ATHENAEUM. It is like entering a new world to suddenly come across a book by John Oliver Hobbes.... There is hardly a page on which at least one epigram does not occur, or some admirably phrased description: the whole very cynical and pessimistic of course, but somehow all the more amusing for that.... Though some of the women are hardly dealt with, at least one and possibly two are charming.... This book must certainly be placed very high among the books which have given the Pseudonym Library its reputation. PALL MALL GAZETTE. John Oliver Hobbes must be careful.... "A Bundle of Life" will not do.... All her characters talk the talk that never was in drawing-room or smoking-room.... The story is hardly interesting, and the passion will not bear analysis. Some of the descriptions are clever, however, and the rest have an air of being clever, and John Oliver Hobbes is an undeniably clever writer, but she must be careful. WESTMINSTER GAZETTE. "A Bundle of Life" is amazingly clever, and shows the faculty of beating out character by a few swift strokes of dialogue.... It says much for John Oliver Hobbes that he can make the situations even plausible, and to do him justice he does much more than that.... The scene between Wicke and Lady Mallinger is really most admirable....The doings of these astonishing people are full of entertainment. NATIONAL OBSERVER. If John Oliver Hobbes could but make up his (or her) mind to be less vastly clever than he (or she) is, or essays to be, it would be an excellent thing for her (or his) work. The little book reeks with unbridled smartness.... It is nothing to you that some of the epigrams are good....Who shall thrive by sugar-plums alone?
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Good in No D/J jacket. Size: 7x3x0; First American Edition. No D/J. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Boards a little marked with light rubbing to extremities.
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Tiight binding is a bit cocked, clean throughout, sunned spine, mild edge wear, black stamps have dulled a bit, Good+ 159pp, small octavo, top edges gilt.
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