While railroad life affords fewer elements of passion and emotion than the life of Wall Street, it offers however a far greater field for the depiction of the heroic. Deeds of bravery are probably more common among these hardy, cool, resourceful men—the railroad employees—than among any other members of society. “Held For Orders” describes thrilling incidents in the management of a mountain division in the far West. The stories are all independent, but have characters in common, many of whom have been met with in McClure’s Magazine. Mr. Spearman combines the qualities of a practical railroad man with those of a fascinating storyteller, and his tales, both in subject and manner of telling, are something new in literature. (12mo, $1.50.)
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
- Silently corrected typographical errors.
- Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.