+ Booklist 16:281 My ’20

“The tale has plenty of incident, and though it contains too numerous and too long passages of description not a few of them are well done, while the lover of horses will be sure to envy Helen her possession of the splendid Ranger.”

+ − N Y Times 25:70 F 8 ’20 900w

“A western story conventional in plot and incident, but well written and with a certain nobility in its feeling for the freedom of the wide spaces.”

+ N Y Times 25:190 Ap 18 ’20 40w

“Action is always rapid and there is an abundance of local color. On occasions Mr Grey gives play to his liking for descriptive paragraphs, which sometimes bulk too large. But these are seldom formal. The book is among the author’s best stories.”

+ Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 14 ’20 580w

“Few romances make better business out of the wilds of the West than Mr Zane Grey: and he is well up to his mark in this stirring tale.”

+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p426 Jl 1 ’20 70w

GRIFFIS, WILLIAM ELLIOT. Swiss fairy tales. il *$1.75 (2½c) Crowell