“The Baroness Orczy is an old hand at this kind of story, has the machinery under control and the lingo pat.” H. W. Boynton
+ − Review 2:463 My 1 ’20 150w
“It is a vivid tale, told with all the charm, color and romantic flavor characterizing Baroness Orczy’s novels.”
+ Springf’d Republican p11a S 5 ’20 310w The Times [London] Lit Sup p573 O 16 ’19 60w
O’RIORDAN, CONAL O’CONNELL (NORREYS CONNELL, pseud.). Adam of Dublin. *$2 Harcourt
20–20003
Adam was born in the gutter and began his career in life, at the age of seven, selling stale papers. When he came to a sudden realization of what that meant he went to pour out his heart in confession to Father Innocent Feeley and found his first and truest friend. He makes other friends too, for after Father Innocent’s intervention has secured for him an education for the priesthood, and after the good Father’s death occurred at a crisis in Adam’s school life that made his position there untenable, the queer old Frenchman in Adam’s lodging house, who was not a Frenchman at all but a German musician, took him under his wing and saw to it that he was freed from the clutches of the Jesuits. The book leaves young Adam—the incarnation of the romantic soul of Ireland—on the brink of a new and freer life, of which the reader is led to expect an account in another volume.
“Among so many dead novels it is a delight to hail one that is so rich in life.” K. M.
+ Ath p652 N 12 ’20 960w + Booklist 17:159 Ja ’21