The Redolent Bouquet

Complacency is a trouble sometimes calling for a spring tonic. Such a corrective has recently come to the Atlantic office in the form of a review of Memories of a Hostess in a St. Paul, Minnesota, newspaper. In the success of this book we had been taking a certain satisfaction; but what says the St. Paul reviewer?

About halfway through ‘Stage Folk and Others,’ this reader gave up the ghost, leaving ‘Sarah Orne Jewett’ unassayed. He recommends the book heartily to quite old ladies who passed their first youth somewhere in Massachusetts and who don’t mind something a trifle dull, and to all others as a bed-time book. If any of the latter fail to fall asleep after three pages of it, a serious nervous disorder is indicated and a specialist should be consulted at once.