“A trifle melodramatic and stilted in the earlier chapters, it develops into a really powerful piece of work. If the story boasts little originality either of plot or incident, it is told with a skill and vigor that lift it well above the level of its kind, and few are likely to leave it dissatisfied.”
+ – Lit. D. 32: 734. My. 12, ’06. 210w.
“As a romance—a mere romance—of the time-killing variety, Mr. Comstock’s story will do very well indeed.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 206. Ap. 7, ’06. 320w.
“A stirring tale of love and adventure.”
+ Outlook. 82: 763. Mr. 31, ’06. 100w.
Conant, Charles Arthur. Principles of money and banking. 2v. *$4. Harper.
Mr. Conant’s work carries “the reader from the beginnings of exchange when cattle and fragments of metal passed by tale of weight down through the origin of coinage and the birth thereof of modern banking to the complete mechanism of money and credit as they exist to-day.” “It is not written for the purpose of demolishing the ‘quantity theory,’ extirpating the bimetallist, or advocating an ‘asset currency,’ but is devoted to irenic exposition rather than polemical discussions.” (Nation.)