“Somewhat too sentimental in execution, but simple and pretty.”
+ − Outlook 126:67 S 8 ’20 20w
ROCHE, ARTHUR SOMERS. Uneasy street. il *$1.75 (2c) Cosmopolitan bk. corporation
20–2645
He was an impecunious clerk before the war, but won a commission and was swept into New York gilt-edged society by his millionaire chum after their discharge. He goes the pace and one night of it finds him in debt and in love and temptation staring him in the face in the form of a trunkful of money under his hotel bed. He falls for it, takes what he needs with intentions to refund, but is found out before that happy event can take place. Then his manhood reasserts itself, he returns the stolen money and makes a clean confession of his guilt to his employer, his chum’s father. He is forgiven and is reinstated in the good graces of his fiancée, his chum and gilt-edged society.
“In construction the present story is by far the best he has written.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ap 7 ’20 120w
“That the story is devoid of all plausibility will not detract from its interest to such readers as enjoy this sort of a book.”