“A tale of romance and adventure in which improbability is obscured by thrills. The style is awkward.”
+ − Booklist 17:70 N ’20
“Well-told tale.”
+ Boston Transcript p4 Ag 28 ’20 220w
“The story is told in a casual, rather than an inspired, way. But when the action once really starts, the reader forgets the critical attitude in a breathless absorption in the vigor of the narrative.”
+ − N Y Times p25 S 5 ’20 470w + Springf’d Republican p11a S 12 ’20 150w
ENOCK, C. REGINALD. Spanish America: its romance, reality and future. 2v il *$8 Scribner 918
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“The scheme of Mr Enock’s book is what Stowe would have called a perambulation. Beginning with Central America and Mexico, he takes us right along the Pacific coast through Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile, with an excursion into Bolivia: the remaining two chapters of the first volume are devoted to the Cordillera of the Andes. In the second volume we are taken down the Atlantic coast, with its rich and still imperfectly explored hinterlands, from the ‘lands of the Spanish Main’—Colombia, Venezuela and Guiana—through the Amazon valley and Brazil to the River Plate and the pampas, the go-ahead countries of Argentina and Uruguay and the secluded pastures of Paraguay. The historical associations, natural resources, and present industrial life of each district are uniformly described in passing.”—The Times [London] Lit Sup