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Mary Hartwell Catherwood
(1847-1902)
The Romance of Dollard
La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec
The English Collection
Volume 2 : version 1.3
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M. H. Catherwood
The Romance of Dollard
The Romance of Dollard.
By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. New York :The Century Company. [1889.]
[...] Of a somewhat other sort is a little historicalromance, which moves among less mighty names andon less classic ground, but somehow comes closer tohuman interest. With Mr. Astor we find ourselvescurious as to the movements of his characters. They allbelong to another period, another clime ; they areplaying for our entertainment, and we praise the skillwith which their costumes are reproduced and thegeneral accuracy of detail that is shown. With Mrs.Catherwood we witness an heroic deed set in the hightof passionate love, and forget, while we are reading, tocriticise or even to praise, for we live in the story. Thedistinction is one which goes to the bottom of things. Itis not merely that in one case we have an intriguingItalian civilization, with the encounter of petty spirits,in the other a fresh, new-world experiment, withrecourse to elemental activities of life ; but the
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