“The stories are extremely uneven in quality. It is in the eastern tales that the author’s musical diction and his appreciation of the suggestive limitations of words are most happily apparent.”
+ − N Y Times p26 D 26 ’20 720w
DYER, WALTER ALDEN. Sons of liberty. il *$1.50 (2c) Holt
20–21337
Mr Dyer has made Paul Revere the hero of this story for boys. He has introduced a few fictitious characters and incidents, but in the main has held to the facts of history. The story begins in 1847 when Paul was a boy of twelve and it follows the course of events that led up to the revolution, introducing Sam Adams, John Hancock, Joseph Warren and others. The author looks on Paul Revere as “one of the most picturesque and lovable characters of his time,” and regrets that little is known of him aside from the one incident celebrated in Longfellow’s poem. He shows him to have been a many-sided man, of broad interests and sympathies and artistic ability, and a man of the people.
Ind 104:378 D 11 ’20 50w
“The plot is conventional and Samuel Adams rather too heroic a figure to be true, but the history behind the record is unusually sound.”
+ Nation 112:75 Ja 19 ’21 150w + N Y Times p28 Ja 2 ’21 320w Springf’d Republican p8 O 16 ’20 150w
“The book spiritedly sketches the history of the period and makes one feel the impulses then animating the people of Boston.”