Talk:An Opera and Lady Grasmere

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 * Punch 1899 March 29: Mr. Arrowsmith, of Bristol, has a keen eye for new young men, and has found one in the author of An Opera and Lady Grasmere. Mr. is perhaps new only to my Baronite, for he has to his name other stories with unfamiliar titles. However that be, in this little volume, that may be read right through in a hundred miles railway journey (especially on some lines), he tells a pretty story in liveliest fashion. The principal incident in the plot, conventional and in its unravelling obvious, is the worst thing in the book. The best, happily the best predominates, are the sketches of men and women we meet every day in London life, and the swift, brilliant painting-in of the scenes wherein they move.


 * The Illustrated London News, 1899 May 20: The moods and spells that Mr. Albert Kinross details in his interesting yet somewhat whimsical way in "An Opera and Lady Grasmere" are true enough. Every young artist who has caught London in its nights and mornings of glamour, and, suddenly set in tune with it, has seen a way to El Dorado, will have no doubt whatever in the matter. That the glamour has generally such a happy and adroit continuation into the world of action as Mr. Kinross describes with such conviction, is another story. But there is an El Dorado of the heart even in London, and there the gallant knight finds a Lady Grasmere ever waiting to be won. Or, if we all gave full scope to our dormant romance, and the poetic possibilities of our temperaments, something like Mr. Kinross's world might come about in due process of evolution. We do not, but we like the better way and the luck of Mr. Kinross's hero, The opening stages of the story are the more airy, but the whole seems an artist's prelude to quite engaging work.


 * The Critic, 1900 August: An Opéra and Lady Grasmere, by Albert Kinross, is more than reminiscent of the play “Heartsease,” in that a stolen opera is the theme; it is also suggestive of John Oliver Hobbes. Nevertheless, it is bright and readable. Any author that uses "anent" nowadays may fairly be suspected of writing for effect. The book stands in the first rank of third-class novels. Archie Gunn's illustrations are very bad.