+ Spec. 97: 497. O. 6, ’06. 110w.
Osbourne, Lloyd. [Wild justice.] †$1.50. Appleton.
Nine stories of life in the South sea islands which take their title from the first tale. The author spent a number of years among crude Pacific natives with his step-father Robert Louis Stevenson. His characters are drawn from these inhabitants “well-meaning but generally inefficient missionaries, unscrupulous traders, and refugees and adventurers in search of victims. It is not an edifying life, and the manly virtues seem to be conspicuously absent.” (Outlook.)
“They are all good, but of no one of them can it be said that it is strikingly and exceptionally good.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 510. Ap. 28. 240w.
“The tales all have a swing in the telling and show that the author is in his own field.”
+ Critic. 48: 476. My. ’06. 70w. + – Lond. Times. 5: 149. Ap. 27, ’06. 550w.
“The fascination of the unusual pervades its pages.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 197. Mr. 31, ’06. 320w.