+ R. of Rs. 34: 384. S. ’06. 120w. (Review of v. 1.)
“Topics, brought well up to date and treated with a thoroughness hardly surpassed in more pretentious works.”
+ + + R. of Rs. 34: 512. O. ’06. 30w. (Review of v. 3.)
Nesbit, Wilbur Dick. Gentleman ragman; Johnny Thompson’s story of the Emigger. †$1.50. Harper.
The ubiquitous office boy of the village newspaper bursts into print in these series of humorous sketches and tells in his own way all about his editor, his editor’s friends and the people of Plainville in general. The result is genuinely funny from the story of how the barefoot cure succeeded so well in Plainville that not one of the patients ever suffered from bare feet again, to the account of how a rural shopping expedition was conducted. An old feud and a tangled three-stranded love interest carry the thread of the story to a happy ending and a double wedding.
“An ample native Americanism in man, woman, and boy is unfolded with full measure of native American humor in the language of the country, resulting in a fabric, inexpensive but entirely wholesome and clean.”
+ Nation. 83: 308. O. 11, ’06. 170w.
Reviewed by Otis Notman.
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 623. O. 6, ’06. 80w.