The Splendor Stays

The Splendor Stays is about Captain Elisha Hart of Saybrook, Connecticut, and his seven daughters and the men they married, or loved and did not marry particularly his fourth daughter, Jeannette, who was the most striking and intelligent of the seven. Jeannette was loved by men as different as Simon Bolivar and Fitz-Greene Halleck (author of “Marco Bozzaris” and “Alnwick Castle,” which some of us used to recite in our childhood). Her adventures take us to Boston, Washington, South America, and back to Saybrook, and in the course of them she meets Isaac Hull, Cooper, Clay, Monroe, and many other famous persons of the time of the War of 1812 or later, and sees many strange sights in Peru and Chile.

The story is told from the feminine point of view, a fact that will no doubt make it more absorbing to women than to men.

R. M. G.