“Major Lock has produced a readable sketch of a large subject. The map attached to the book is ingeniously contrived to illustrate the many periods of history on which Major Lock touches.”
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LOCKE, GLADYS EDSON. Ronald o’ the moors. il *$1.75 (2½c) Four seas co.
20–94
This historical novel is staged on the Dartmoor bogs in the reign of George II. Dartmoor was a hot-bed of Jacobite sympathy, and Sir Roger Hetherington had been sent down from the court of St James to guard Penraven Castle, the center of Jacobite activity, and to capture wild Ronald o’ the moors, a highwayman and night rider who made Hanoverians his particular prey. Sir Roger was far from welcome at Penraven Castle, indeed he soon realized that he was in the midst of bitter enemies. What made the success of his undertaking even more doubtful, however, was the fact that he at once lost his heart to Lady Edris Penraven, the mistress of the castle he was sent to spy upon, and that Ronald seemed to be as elusive as the will o’ the wisps that flitted over the moor. Altogether Sir Roger’s plans did not work out just as he had shaped them, but the end of the story, altho it leaves him exiled in France, yet brings him happiness as well, since he shares Lady Edris’s fate.
“The book is about on a par with the average of its class, fiction of which the authors seem to be under the impression that vital interest is imparted by a liberal supply of oaths and expletives, and the use of archaic language whether appropriate to the period or otherwise.”
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LOCKE, WILLIAM JOHN. House of Baltazar. *$1.90 (2c) Lane