The man with three names was many things in one, besides his names. He was a novelist, a romantic lover of unusual daring, and a crusader for justice and right. He wrote a book, that went straight to the hearts of sentimental young girls, over a pseudonym. He loved a millionaire’s daughter under his mother’s maiden name, while he flayed her father for the wrongs he had done to the poor. He was the son of a thief who had died in prison for fraudulent business operations and whose fortune he was devoting to expiatory purposes. He achieved all he set out to do: won fame, won the girl, and helped to make over the girl’s father into a good man, expiated his own father’s sins and restored his family name to new honor.
“On the whole, however, his performances are mildly entertaining.”
+ − Ath p619 N 5 ’20 130w Booklist 16:172 F ’20 Boston Transcript p6 Mr 31 ’20 480w
“It is a pleasant, readable little story, brightly written and sufficiently rapid in movement.”
+ N Y Times 25:22 Ja 18 ’20 500w + − Pub W 96:1692 D 27 ’19 300w Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 7 ’20 230w
“Here is the same flowing, almost racy style, which we recall in the ‘Private wire to Washington.’ There is no lack of humour.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p670 O 14 ’20 320w
MACHARD, ALFRED. When Tytie came (Popaul et Virginie); tr. by Howard Vincent O’Brien. il *$1.75 Reilly & Lee
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