Chambers, Robert William. Reckoning. †$1.50. Appleton.
“Mr. Chambers’s richly dressed puppets move briskly through their many trials to a happy end, and the author, as I before said, is a competent story teller.” Mary Moss.
+ Atlan. 97: 50. Ja. ’06. 150w.
“It leaves you with a sense of puzzled doubt just where erudition ceases and the dime novel begins.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
+ – Bookm. 22: 374. D. ’05. 380w.
Chambers, Robert William. Tracer of lost persons. †$1.50. Appleton.
Certain interesting cases taken up by Mr. Keen, head of the firm of Keen & co., Tracers of lost persons, form the substance of these amusing stories, but they are not on the old detective story order, for they are all cases in which the lost person is a lost love or a lost ideal and they all end in happy marriages as the dinner given to Mr. Keen at the close of the volume by five radiant young couples testifies.
“Somewhat puerile and wholly absurd is the main idea of this amorous tale, but some of the incidents are amusing, and the dialogue is brisk.”
+ – Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 50w.