“The story is compact of intrigue, adventure, and general nervous excitement; it is a capital production of its sort.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ Dial. 40: 366. Je. 1, ’06. 240w.
“For a first novel, his is a finished and striking production.”
+ Lit. D. 32: 808. My. 26, ’06. 610w. N. Y. Times. 11: 270. Ap. 28, ’06. 520w.
Warman, Cy. [Last spike], and other railroad stories. †$1.25. Scribner.
“These short stories, by a well-known popular magazine writer, tell of adventures on railroad surveys, in railway locomotives and cars and elsewhere. Some of the best of the stories have the Canadian Northwest as their scene of action.” (Engin. N.).
+ Engin. N. 55: 313. Mr. 15, ’06. 40w.
“Many of them are good of their kind, and all of them have a certain stamp of mechanic strength.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 280w.