“Altogether a delightful little volume, and one well worth making.”
+ Outlook. 82: 140. Ja. 20, ’06. 120w. + Pub. Opin. 40: 445. Ap. 7, ’06. 80w.
Colton, Arthur Willis. [Belted seas.] †$1.50. Holt.
Reviewed by Mary Moss.
Atlan. 97: 46. Ja. ’06. 200w.
Colton, Arthur Willis. [Cruise of the Violetta.] †$1.50. Holt.
An Ohio woman, left with a vast fortune, equips a yacht and sails to the land of “parrots and monkeys and bananas and foreign missions.” The story is a humorous characterization of a practical woman’s missionary work, shared by the unique Dr. Alswater, who was “not a ‘globe trotter’ but rather a floater,—in the manner resembling sea-weed, that drifts from place to place, but wherever it drifts or clings, is tranquil and accommodating.” The fortunes of a young electrician, sent to a South American town to establish an electric light plant, form one thread of the tale.
“Mr. Colton’s new novel is conceived in an unconventional, not to say freakish, style. Banter and sarcasm prevail from the beginning to the end. Humor is not lacking, but it is seldom wholesome or spontaneous.”
– + Lit. D. 33: 767. N. 24, ’06. 200w.