“It is true to the life, sympathetic and intimate. No admirer of John Burroughs can do without this pleasant book.”
+ N Y Times p2 D 5 ’20 1450w
“It is a good book for boys and girls as well as for older people up to the nineties.”
+ Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 50w + R of Rs 62:669 D ’20 120w + Wis Lib Bul 16:236 D ’20 60w
BARRY, RICHARD HAYES. Fruit of the desert. *$1.50 Doubleday
20–7295
“A race of sun-worshippers, the Sunnites, rescue the hero, left starving on the desert of Arizona by bandits. He finds his new friends to be survivors of an ancient civilization. Inevitably, as in all stories of this type, he falls in love with their high priestess and escapes with her to the less romantic but more comfortable life of every-day America.”—Outlook
“Having elected to write a romance, and a romance of a very romantic sort, Mr Barry is entirely justified in using romantic methods and in paying just as little heed as pleases him to probabilities. He writes with the skill of a craftsman, he keeps the interest well sustained.”
+ N Y Times p24 Ag 1 ’20 720w Outlook 125:223 Je 2 ’20 80w