+ N Y Times 25:285 My 30 ’20 120w
“The present reviewer has no intention of suggesting that ‘Wilderness’ is preeminently a book for boys, but that it may be popular with boys is not a mere surmise.”
+ Outlook 125:506 Jl 14 ’20 850w R of Rs 61:559 My ’20 80w
“Rather an unusual book in both appearance and contents is ‘Wilderness.’”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 Jl 8 ’20 500w
“The writing is well enough, but Mr Kent is not a born writer; he is a born, though very unequal draughtsman.”
+ − The Times [London] Lit Sup p469 Jl 22 ’20 1000w
KEON, GRACE. Just Happy. *$1.65 Devin-Adair
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“Happy is the name of the canine hero, a huge and hideous black bulldog and an invincible fighter. Happy’s nature was of the best; in fact, his temper could not truthfully be called anything less than saintly, but he was a ferocious looking animal, so amazingly and abnormally hideous that Mother was shocked at the sight of him and felt that she really could not take him into her household of six small boys and Father—Father being in truth the veriest boy of them all. Of course, Mother yielded at last to the importunities of Father, Grandmother and the boys. Happy became a member of the family, and quickly proved himself a most valuable one. Happy routs a thievish tramp, comforts a dying old soldier’s last hours, has a fight with another dog, which encounter narrowly escapes being an expensive one for Father, and saves the house from burglars.”—N Y Times