“Mr Turner possesses, simultaneously with the knack of astonishing, the knack of cloying and blurring. He is intoxicated with exotic masses and meanings. He has visual genius; his images expand in the mind’s eye. Yet, once he has created a scene, he does nothing with it. He has not the firmness to finish what he gloriously begins.” M. V. D.
+ − Nation 110:855 Je 26 ’20 160w + N Y Times 25:194 Ap 18 ’20 200w
“Turner’s ‘The dark wind’ is first of all a book of color and beautiful rhythms. He possesses the virtue of flinging lovely pictures before the reader, not the hard emphasized colors that cry from Miss Amy Lowell’s efforts, but a soft yet glittering mingling of hues that is warm with sunlight and harmonious with spring and autumn.”
+ N Y Times 25:16 Je 27 ’20 700w
TURPIN, EDNA HENRY LEE. Treasure mountain. il *$1.75 (3c) Century
20–16341
This story for girls has a picturesque setting in the southern mountains. Page Ruffin, the young heroine, is helped out of a dangerous situation by a mountain boy who gives his name as Harson Ruffyan. She is struck with the likeness to her own name and her teasing companions see a facial resemblance as well. Page’s father suspects a real relationship but he is angrily turned away by Mac Ruffyan, who refuses to recognize the kinship. On another occasion Page is lost on the mountain and is rescued by Mac Ruffyan and taken to his cabin home. Here she sees her possible cousin in a new light and becomes his champion. In the meantime her father has been investigating family history to learn the secret of the relationship. A second mystery of the story, which leads to a still more thrilling adventure and rescue, is concerned with a cave, buried treasure and a ghost. Incidentally the author introduces the lesson of wild flower preservation.
“Will interest girls from ten to fifteen.”
+ Booklist 17:164 Ja ’21