Vesey, Arthur Henry. Castle of lies. †$1.50. Appleton.
A young man branded a coward because he did not risk his life to rescue a friend who had fallen over a precipice is the hero of a stormy tale rife with intrigue and hair-breadth escapes. He is led to believe that he may retrieve his former self respect by saving a life for the life lost. “The story is around the love of an American for an English girl. The title of the book is from the castle owned by the villain of the story, a countess, who, for political reasons, spirits away an ambassador, the brother of the heroine, and kidnaps the hero.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The whole thing is a tissue of glaring improbabilities strung together with no regard for sequence.”
– Critic. 49: 94. Jl. ’06. 130w. N. Y. Times. 11: 242. Ap. 14, ’06. 260w. – Outlook. 82: 907. Ap. 21, ’06. 70w.
Vetch, Robert Hamilton, ed. Life of Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Sir Andrew Clarke; with a pref. by Sir G. S. Clarke. **$4. Dutton.
Sir Andrew Clarke of “the shrewd eye for capable men” deserves a biography “if only as an example of how the servants of the empire are made.” “To have played a part in the early struggles of two of the Australasian colonies, to have undertaken engineering works on a large scale, to have settled complex native problems in the Straits settlements and to have served on the Viceroy’s Council would have been enough for most men; but Sir Andrew Clarke was a man of such unceasing activity that these achievements were but a part of his career, and the training which he obtained in thus serving his country abroad only fitted him the better for becoming at home Commandant of the School of military engineering and Inspector-General of fortifications.” (Acad.)
+ Acad. 70: 60. Ja. 20, ’06. 600w.
“The volume in which this story is told is judiciously edited.”