+ N Y Evening Post p11 N 27 ’20 330w
“The whole book is a constructive criticism which will appeal to all citizens and city officials interested in the improvement of municipal government.”
+ N Y P L Munic Ref Lib Notes 7:54 N 17 ’20 570w N Y Times p18 N 28 ’20 1750w
Reviewed by Calvin Coolidge
+ Outlook 127:187 F 2 ’21 2100w
“The author has done well to emphasize the almost insuperable difficulties confronting our police. The book should be read not only by police administrators but by the general public upon whose intelligent understanding of the problems set forth depends their solution.” E. D. Graper
+ Survey 45:517 Ja 1 ’21 680w
FOSTER, JOHN. Searchers. *$1.90 (2½c) Doran
20–26880
Two halves of a secret join Italy and Scotland in a determined search for a casket of jewels lost three hundred and fifty years ago. The quest is made by the Searchers, an ancient organization, consisting at the time of the story of desperados, with one exception, Italian. The hiding place of the jewels is recorded in a document which for greater safety has been torn in two and one-half placed in the keeping of a Scottish family, the other with Roman Jesuits. In the story the two halves are gravitating towards each other throughout a series of thrilling and dangerous adventures, plots and counterplots till the grave of the priest, with whom the casket was buried, is discovered on a high and wild summit of the Scottish crags and the canny Scotchman carries off the day and the jewels as against the Italian plotters.