+ Booklist 16:275 My ’20
“The book contains much fascinating information about the technique of escaping from prison camps. That truth is stranger than fiction is again demonstrated by Mr Keith’s adventures.”
+ N Y Times 25:81 F 8 ’20 380w + Review 2:632 Je 16 ’20 440w
“In what one is now justified in calling the literature of escape this takes a good place. It is told with a good deal of literary skill, and is full of close detail which is never allowed to be boring.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p586 N 28 ’18 70w
KELLAND, CLARENCE BUDINGTON. Catty Atkins. il *$1.60 (2½c) Harper
20–1213
Catty Atkins and his father were shiftless folk, tramps, to be exact. But Catty was levelheaded and did a lot of thinking and when he fell in with “Wee-wee” Moore and his dad he did some more. All that Mr Moore did was to treat Catty with respect and all that Mrs Gage did was to treat him like scum. The effect of the combination was to arouse Catty from his lethargy and fill him with a fierce determination to be respectable and make his shiftless dad respectable. How he did it is the story, and although Catty’s bossing soon makes Mr Atkins the richest and handsomest man in town, he never loses his wistful look towards his fishing rod and the road.
“A capital story for boys.” R. D. Moore