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OUT OF DUE SEASON - A Mezzotint
OUT OF DUE SEASON - A Mezzotint
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Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)
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IN "Out of Due Season" Adeline Sergeant does herself more justice, and with a theme no more original than the last we dealt with. Adam Bede was a carpenter, and he sorrowed for a girl and conquered self in much the same way that Gideon Blake, the hero of Miss Sergeant's story, who is also a carpenter, does. Here the trouble is due to an erring wife and the loss of a little son who might have supplied her place. Gideon Blake comes through his trial nobly, and if the forgiveness he is depicted as extending to the erring and shallow-hearted woman who has so misunderstood and wronged him is somewhat ideal the teaching is distinctly good. Miss Sergeant is at home with the inhabitants of little country towns and villages, and can draw an effective picture of their every-day life and condition. The characterization here is especially pleasing, from shallow little Emmy Enderby to old Obed Pilcher, the young man's uncle. Gideon Blake is a somewhat inconsistent character. His fits of savage ill-temper hardly accord with the real affection he is represented as having for his wife, and we are not prepared for such a complete recognition of man's chief duty as he eventually displays. The story is well put together and has one or two points of more than passing interest and importance.
— London Literary World.
*****
IN "Out of Due Season" Adeline Sergeant does herself more justice, and with a theme no more original than the last we dealt with. Adam Bede was a carpenter, and he sorrowed for a girl and conquered self in much the same way that Gideon Blake, the hero of Miss Sergeant's story, who is also a carpenter, does. Here the trouble is due to an erring wife and the loss of a little son who might have supplied her place. Gideon Blake comes through his trial nobly, and if the forgiveness he is depicted as extending to the erring and shallow-hearted woman who has so misunderstood and wronged him is somewhat ideal the teaching is distinctly good. Miss Sergeant is at home with the inhabitants of little country towns and villages, and can draw an effective picture of their every-day life and condition. The characterization here is especially pleasing, from shallow little Emmy Enderby to old Obed Pilcher, the young man's uncle. Gideon Blake is a somewhat inconsistent character. His fits of savage ill-temper hardly accord with the real affection he is represented as having for his wife, and we are not prepared for such a complete recognition of man's chief duty as he eventually displays. The story is well put together and has one or two points of more than passing interest and importance.
— London Literary World.
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