"A Drone and a Dreamer" is a rich fulfillment of this prophecy. Brimming over with genial humor and wholesome fun, the book is an exquisite love story and charming idyl of life among the mountains and valleys of the Keystone State.
DROCH in LIFE:
"One of the most fertile yet unploughed regions in the United States for local fiction is Pennsylvania. It is old, and vast and picturesque. Bayard Taylor and Weir Mitchell have given the Philadelphia end of the State some importance in fiction. John Luther Long has written several effective tales in the Dutch dialect, and the Moravians of Bethlehem have inspired a novel or two. These writers, however, have hardly scratched around the corners of the great state. Mr. Lloyd does not try to palm off a weak imitation of a Miss Wilkins Yankee as a rustic Pennsylvanian. His humor comes spontaneously from the soil."
BOOK BUYER:
"Mr. Lloyd is an excellent workman. He makes us see the quiet of the hills and the allurements of the trout-stream, yet he refrains as scrupulously as Mr. Howells himself from obtruding his own personality. His characters themselves apparently produce the effects due to his skill. His subject-matter is remarkably fresh. Pervading it all is a delightful humor."