“An American story of a young, successful, but unscrupulous, financier, giving a picture of society financial markets, and the conflict of business methods and the passion of love.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup
+ Booklist 16:349 Jl ’20
“Edwin Bateman Morris’s preceding novels have prepared us for moderately good tales from his pen, and ‘The cresting wave’ is no disappointment.”
+ Boston Transcript p10 My 1 ’20 160w
“The author here has taken a safe course in his novel of more than four hundred pages, and if he presents us with nothing especially new, at least he does no violence to no tradition and does not attempt to paint his hero in impossible colors.”
+ − N Y Times 25:330 Je 20 ’20 400w
“‘The cresting wave’ is built upon one of the very oldest of ideas or morals: namely, that it is better to be decent than successful, better to serve than to grasp. Perhaps my gratitude to young William Spade for neither trying to write a novel nor spouting free verse nor hanging about cafes and studios in search of ‘life’ prejudices me unduly in his favor.” H. W. Boynton
+ Review 2:393 Ap 17 ’20 250w + − Springf’d Republican p11a My 16 ’20 240w + The Times [London] Lit Sup p285 My 6 ’20 50w
MORRIS, HARRISON SMITH. Hannah Bye. *$1.75 Penn