The three tales which compose this little volumehave been previously published in the HartfordPost. “The author frankly acknowledges himselfa disciple of the romantic school,” and his storieshave the dreamy, remote atmosphere which he hasaimed to produce. There is much beauty in thesepale, pathetic creations and they have doubtless acertain affinity with the scenery of Greece, as Mr.Dodge suggests. It is the present day Greece of amodern man’s imagination, however, and we mustnot take the title “Greek Tale,” as at all applicableto the stories in the classical sense. Theymight in some truth be compared in style with Mr.Winter’s poems.

* * * They are, all three, quiet, unpretentious,gracefully told stories that almost all classes ofreaders will enjoy.

* * * In method and scene alike the book is apleasing variation from the conventional.

There is a charm in Walter Phelps Dodge’s“Three Greek Tales” wholly in keeping with theclassic scenery in which they are laid and theclassical associations it suggests. Of those fairisles, dear alike to the artist and the littérateur,story and picture each take on qualities borrowedfrom its rival, and these tales of modern Greek lifeare enjoyable largely for their picturesque setting.

* * * A young author could hardly have amore auspicious introduction to the public than thissmall volume gives. If there is no realism or pretenceto analysis of character, there is somethingfar better and rarer, in these days of over-stuffedand over-seasoned “roast and boiled”—there arecharacters that stand out and that live and breatheby reason of a few fine outlines of suggestiveness.

* * * Love stories, all of them, well told inthe main.

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AS THE CROW FLIES

FROM CORSICA TO
CHARING CROSS

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Copyright, 1893
GEO. M. ALLEN COMPANY
New York




THE ALLEY-ALLEN PRESS, NEW YORK

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TO MY FATHER
D. STUART DODGE

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Acknowledgment is made
to the Editors of the Hartford Post
and the ...