Bennett, John. Treasure of Peyre Gaillard. †$1.50. Century.
While Jack Gignillatt, a young civil engineering student is recuperating among his Southern relatives, an old box is found at the end of a secret stairway which contains the legend of treasure buried in an adjoining swamp by an ancestor in the Revolutionary days at the time of a Tory raid. Jack’s nimble mathematical wit, aided by a cousin’s intuition, is put to the test of unravelling a cryptogram’s secret, which when once revealed starts an excited group on its way to the sure unearthing of a fortune.
“A remarkable ingenious and vigorous yarn of mystery.”
+ – Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 420w.
“The manner of the book is unconventional, and its combination of poetic imagination with rugged, somewhat broken style gives it a peculiar charm. The author’s one love scene, although it is told with poetic beauty and elevation of feeling, is a serious fault in construction, because in it he makes the sole departure from the first person in which the rest of the book is written.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 863. D. 8, ’06. 440w.
“Will certainly hold a high place among tales of modern treasure-trove.”
+ Outlook. 84: 712. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
Benson, Arthur Christopher (T. B. pseud.). [From a college window.] **$1.25. Putnam.