The House of Dreams is nicely "made", with a pretty cover design. The latter is very illogical of course. Twenty-five year old Anne looks like a girl of seventeen. But it is all very dainty and will "catch the trade." I do hope the book will be a success. It would be humiliating to me if it failed to make good, for I would feel that Strokes would think they had been led into giving "big terms" to an author who could not "deliver the goods." Then, too, its failure will make glad the heart of Page. Myself, I think the book is the best I have ever written not even excepting Green Gables or my favorite "The Story Girl."
~from The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume II, July 21, 1917 |
