“As a study of the effect of remorse on a morbid temperament, the book is deeply interesting, and all the characters of the drama are skilfully handled.”
+ Sat. R. 101: 698. Je. 2, ’06. 210w.
Vachell, Horace Annesley. [The hill: a romance of friendship.] †$1.50. Dodd.
A public-school story “brave in daring to enter the lists of the school-stories, where ‘Tom Brown at Rugby’ forever wins out, and brave in daring to do without the usual interest of lovemaking.” (N. Y. Times.) The author’s boys “are cleverly conventional types, nicely contrasted and distinguished, his incidents familiar to all readers of social life. But what raises his book above the ordinary level of such stories and connects it with life, is the love of Harrow. The corporate life of the school is here, though the individual boys do not live ... the corporate spirit of a great school.” (Acad.)
“Mr. Vachell writes with such tact and delicacy that we do not think that his book will offend either Harrovians or those who love another school.”
+ Acad. 68: 495. My. 6, ’05. 290w.
“The story itself is interesting and well told.”
+ Ath. 1905, 1: 619. Mr. 20. 410w.
“It is a moving story, in no idle sense of the phrase; with its purity, its sanity, its true boyishness.—its true boys—well fitted to take the Stalky taste out of our mouths.” H. W. Boynton.