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“He has been deeply touched by the ruined greatness that surrounds prosperous Ostend and would show others how they may come under the spell.”
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“While the text of the book is not remarkable in any way, it is written in clear, simple style.”
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Oppenheim, E. Phillips. [Maker of history.] †$1.50. Little.
The plot of Mr. Oppenheim’s new story with a mystery grows out of an episode in which an English youth actually witnesses a meeting between the Czar of Russia and the Emperor of Germany, and turns up in Paris with a loose sheet of a treaty between the two, relative to an attack upon England. How this same Englishman is hidden away in Paris by spies, and why his sister is also abducted, and what sympathies stir one Sir George Duncombe to action in their behalf furnish motive power for a lively story.
“Is a capital story filled with mysterious and exciting happenings, but one regrets to see Mr. Oppenheim writing down to this level after he has shown that he is capable of such work as ‘A prince of sinners.’” Amy C. Rich.