A monograph setting forth the political tendencies of North Carolinians between the war of independence and the war of secession.
Walcott, Earle Ashley. [Blindfolded.] $1.50. Bobbs.
San Francisco with its Chinatown and its water front, its wild life and its desperadoes, is the scene of this adventurous tale of two dual personalities. A young stranger arrives at the Golden Gate just in time to take up, blindfolded, the work of his murdered friend and double, and he is further blinded because of the strange resemblance which his friend’s benefactor bears to his friend’s enemy. Thru murders, brawls, wild scenes in the stock exchange, and strange adventurous missions he gropes courageously in the dark towards light, wealth and happiness.
“This is a mystery-romance displaying considerable ability on the part of the author in construction, plot and counterplot. It is fairly well written and is, we think, the best story of the kind that has appeared in recent months.”
+ + Arena. 36: 571. N. ’06. 350w. Lit. D. 33: 646. N. 3, ’06. 80w.
“In spite of the triteness of both fiction and machinery, it cannot be denied that the book holds our attention from start to finish by means of an interest born of suspense.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 656. O. 6, ’06. 350w. – Outlook. 84: 839. D. 1, ’06. 30w. World To-Day. 11: 1222. N. ’06. 80w.
Walker, Alice Morehouse. Historic Hadley: a story of the making of a famous Massachusetts town. **$1. Grafton press.
In this sketch of historic Hadley “truth has not been sacrificed to style. Painstaking effort has been made to search the town records, to scrutinize every historical document, and to weigh carefully famous traditions. The old dwellings, the highways and byways, the mountains, the river and the meadows, the ancient elms, heirlooms and antique relics have been questioned and they have broken their silence of centuries and told the story of by-gone days.”