“Is disappointing only because its predecessor was much better.”
+ Ath. 1906, 1: 97. Jl. 28. 150w. + Lond. Times. 5: 192. My. 25, ’06. 280w.
“The wanderers with Mr. Sutcliffe into his Arcady will be rewarded for their stroll, and will come upon many a bye-the-bye bit, well worth tucking into their memories.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 480. Jl. 28, ’06. 440w.
“Though hardly the equal of its predecessor, ‘A bachelor in Arcady,’ there are to be found both grace and charm in these chapters, which occupy a middle ground between the story and the essay.”
+ Outlook. 84: 43. S. 1, ’06. 60w.
Sutphen, William Gilbert van Tassel. Doomsman. †$1.50. Harper.
New York in the year 2015 A. D. forms the setting for a story of love and adventure in which the hero is supposed to rediscover the use of firearms and electricity, the knowledge of which has been lost in a great catastrophe which wiped out our modern civilization ninety years earlier. But for the gaunt and partially destroyed skyscrapers and other remains of our own day the tale, with all its primitive human nature, might well be one of the far past and not of the future.
“In places the book is almost grotesque enough to be humourous; but if the author meant it for humour, he disguised his purpose too well. As it stands it is simply tedious and unprofitable.”