+ − N Y Evening Post p9 D 31 ’20 600w
“Extremely interesting and well-written book.” R: Le Gallienne
+ N Y Times p6 N 21 ’20 2350w + Sat R 127:157 F 15 ’19 700w Sat R 130:182 Ag 28 ’20 340w The Times [London] Lit Sup p46 Ja 23 ’19 70w
ELWELL, AMBROSE. At the sign of the Red swan, il *$1.75 Small
19–19053
“A rollicking old-fashioned story of the sea with romance, murder and suicide generously interwoven is told by Ambrose Elwell in ‘At the sign of the Red swan.’ From a quiet, simple fisherman’s home on the rockbound Maine coast, Elwell, who tells the story in the first person, sails forth over the horizon to seek a living and money with which to support his widowed mother and younger brother. His quest, teeming with adventure, leads him into strange paths and foreign waters—Liverpool, the south seas, and, finally, back to the old home. At the Red swan inn, sailors’ dive on a South Sea island, he becomes entangled in the law, charged with deserting his ship and murder of a wealthy Jewish trader. All looks black for him with a gibbet as the closing chapter of his adventurous career. But the devotion of a settlement physician and a chaplain aids him to escape in the nick of time. Later, the sensational suicide of the guilty one, while at sea on the same ship, clears the name of our hero.”—Springf’d Republican
“The fact that this story is ‘different’ from most of the large grist of fiction turned out so steadily and voluminously since the armistice will probably cause it to attract more than ordinary attention.”
+ N Y Times 25:33 Ja 18 ’20 500w Springf’d Republican p11a Je 13 ’20 160w
EMERSON, GUY. New frontier. *$2 (3c) Holt 304