Produced by Daniel Fromont
Susan Warner, 1819-1885 & Anna Warner 1824-1915, Wych Hazel(1876), Putnam's edition 1888
Wych Hazel seen by The Atlantic monthly, Volume 38, Issue 227,September 1876, pp. 368-369
"It may well be questioned whether the authors of the Wide,Wide World have added to their fame by this new novel. In thefirst place, the story it tells is one of no marked merit ororiginality, and the way in which it is told is in the highestdegree crabbed and unintelligible. There is such an air ofpertness about every one of the speakers, and the story istold almost entirely by means of conversations, that thereader gets the impression that all the characters arereferring to jests known only to themselves, as if he wereoverhearing private conversations. As may be imagined, thisscrappy way of writing soon becomes very tiresome from thedifficulty the reader has in detecting the hidden meaning ofthese curt sentences. The book tells the love of Rollo forWych Hazel, and indulges in gentle satire against parties,round dances, etc. The love-story is made obscure, Rollo'smanners are called Spanish, and he is in many ways a peculiaryoung man. We seem to be dealing much more with notes for anovel than with the completed product."
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