“Her versification is unusually successful in coping with the peculiar difficulties of Spanish verse. Her biographical sketches, her comments and her notes are lively and entertaining. It is a delightful book.” N. H. D.
+ Boston Transcript p9 D 1 ’20 1250w
“Her prefaces, though enfeebled as criticism by moral and patriotic bias, are enthusiastic, and arouse keener expectations than her translations satisfy.”
+ − Nation 111:278 S 4 ’20 60w Springf’d Republican p10 My 29 ’20 80w
FARNOL, JEFFERY. Black Bartlemy’s treasure. *$2.15 Little
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This is a veritable treasure island and piracy story. Martin Conisby, Lord Wendover, is sold as a slave to a Spanish galleon by Sir Richard Brandon, the slayer of his father. After making his escape and returning to England, swearing vengeance, he unwittingly becomes the rescuer of Brandon’s daughter. He does not find Sir Richard, who has since been lost at sea. But he falls in with a man about to set forth in quest of a treasure and joins him. Lady Joan Brandon embarks on the same ship and presently the two are set adrift in a boat and reach the island. Here they live for some time, a la Robinson Crusoe and love grows to such an extent that the hero is ready to abjure his vow of vengeance. The treasure is also found. When rescuers come events develop in such a way that he renounces love and all and remains a solitary hermit on the island as the ship sails away. Much rough fighting and slaughter punctuate the various phases of the story.
“Some reminiscences of Stevenson and Charles Reade may have gone towards shaping ‘Black Bartlemy’s treasure,’ but Mr Farnol gives a good account of himself as regards both these models.”