+ + Sat. R. 102: 392. S. 29, ’06. 1680w.
Street, George Edward. Mount Desert: a history; ed. by S: A. Eliot; with a memorial introd. by Wilbert L. Anderson. **$2.50. Houghton.
“The whole history is simply and interestingly told.”
+ Dial. 40: 268. Ap. 16, ’06. 210w.
“It is of specific value as a local history, but it includes much that is beyond the range of its title.”
+ Nation. 82: 352. Ap. 26, ’06. 520w.
Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott. Wire tappers. †$1.50. Little.
A story of greed end craft and a goodly amount of implied electrical information. Two people, an electrical inventor, and an English girl, by force of unusual circumstances play in a game of chance side by side under the direction of a bookmaker ogre who attempts by wiretapping to beat a pool-room in New York City. “Yet there is in it a plot, or the suggestion of a plot, that might have served Ibsen. In its earlier chapters it develops a posture of events on which a ‘psychological’ novelist or dramatist could have builded a powerful work.” (N. Y. Times.)
“As a whole this novel is one of the most original, interesting and suggestive romances of the year.”