“The book is a mine of anecdotes of publishers, authors, advertisers, and advertising agents, written in a breezy, chatty style.”
+ Outlook. 82: 857. Ap. 14, ’06. 80w.
“Even to the ordinary reader, with only a remote interest in advertising and its problems, Mr. Rowell’s book will hold a lasting charm.”
+ Pub. Opin. 40: 315. Mr. 10, ’06. 560w.
Rowland, Henry Cottrell. In the shadow. †$1.50. Appleton.
“This is a study, rather powerful and chiefly depressing, of a ‘pure bred African,’ a native of Hayti, who goes to England to be educated.” (N. Y. Times.) He “has a certain social standing there, and dreams of becoming a revolutionary hero, and of making a great nation of Hayti. Under the pressure of a series of frightful incidents he ‘reverts to type’ and becomes a semi-savage with pathetic helplessness and alternating moods of brutal ferocity and shrinking cowardice.” (Outlook.) The author’s evident theory that any one of these primitive races can not have the qualities necessary to a leader is worked out to a logical conclusion in the story.
“A study of the real negro, and a wonderfully powerful and convincing study it is.”
+ Ath. 1906. 1: 758. Je 23. 190w.
Reviewed by Frederic Taber Cooper.