+ – Dial. 40: 365. Je. 1, ’06. 220w.
“Mr. Vance has an interesting story to tell, and he tells it in a most lively and captivating manner. The characters may be of a more or less conventional and stagy nature ... but in this case they are decidedly well drawn.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 431. Jl. 7, ’06. 400w. + – Outlook. 83: 141. My. 19, ’06. 170w.
“Each season gives us many stories of this character both better and worse—and the best are but ephemeral.”
– + Sat. R. 102: 492. O. 20, ’06. 210w.
Vance, Louis Joseph. Terence O’Rourke, gentleman adventurer. †$1.50. Wessels.
“People who like a series of hair’s-breadth escapes, and are not particular as to whether they can believe in them or not, will thoroughly enjoy the story, which is written with some skill, and a good deal of ingenuity.”
+ Spec. 96: 426. Mr. 17, ’06. 290w.
Van Dyke, Henry. [Americanism of Washington.] 50c. Harper.
Mr. Van Dyke aims to unsay two things often said about Washington: first, that he was a solitary and inexplicable phenomena of greatness, and second, that he was not an American. He interprets in brief the drama which Washington enacted of the eternal conflict in the soul of war between self-interest in its Protean forms, and loyalty to the right, service to a cause, and allegiance to an ideal.