Bindloss, Harold. [Cattle-baron’s daughter.] †$1.50. Stokes.
The transition-period when the boundless cattle-lands of the Northwest were first opened to the home-steader is well handled in this story of the cattle-baron’s daughter and her divided loyalty to her father, the champion of the old order, and to her lover, the leader of the homestead boys. The characters are well drawn Western types and the scenes of feud and riot, of miniature war and revolution, are stirring, because behind the hero is the spirit of the times, the steady march of the settler leading to the final triumph of the plow.
+ Ath. 1906, 2: 67. Jl. 21. 180w.
“A tale of thrilling adventure with plentiful humorous relief.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 626. O. 6, ’06. 240w.
“The interest is well sustained to the end of the story, which is much above the average and is well worth reading.”
+ Spec. 97: 237. Ag. 18, ’06. 180w.
Binns, Henry Bryan. [Life of Walt Whitman.] **$3. Dutton.
In Mr. Binns’ biography and interpretation it has been the aim to write about Whitman rather than to give Whitman’s work with running commentary. The author is an Englishman “who ‘loves’ the United States,” and thinks the time is not yet ripe for a final and complete biography, and therefore his work is suggestive rather than conclusive in the sense of literary decisions. “It is as a man that I see and have sought to describe Whitman. But as a man of special and exceptional character, a new type of mystic or seer.” (N. Y. Times.)