+ Outlook 125:542 Jl 21 ’20 130w
“The handling of the verse-form is skillful, though not masterly.” O. W. Firkins
+ Review 3:653 D 29 ’20 320w + Spec 125:709 N 27 ’20 50w
“The ‘Poems by a little girl’ do not smack of the exotic and consciously clever; they are robust as well as delicate, with the characteristic deliberation and spontaneity of childhood seizing life with keen eyes and quick imagination.”
+ Springf’d Republican p8 My 27 ’20 500w
CONNOLLY, JAMES BRENDAN. Hiker Joy. il *$1.75 (2½c) Scribner
20–8795
Hiker, the young hero of Mr Connolly’s series of adventures, is a little gamin from the New York water front, who ships to sea with his friend Bill Green on a lumber schooner bound for somewhere across the Atlantic in wartime. The ship is wrecked in a storm and Bill gets possession of the valuable papers the captain had been carrying and turns them over to the secret service, according to orders. Other adventures follow, with German spies, U-boats, and Zeppelins, and the whole tale is related by Hiker in his own vernacular.
“Sea stories which will have their usual appeal because the author knows how to write them.”