+ – Atlan. 97: 47. Ja. ’06. 40w. + Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 30w. Ind. 60: 456. F. 22, ’06. 240w.
“Is written with full knowledge and sympathy, and in the slow, involved talk of the men we get much of the flavour of the spoken word.”
+ Spec. 97: 98. Jl. 21, ’06. 110w.
Connor, Ralph, pseud. (Charles William Gordon). [The Doctor, a tale of the Rockies.] †$1.50. Revell.
A character of rare strength and beauty is developed in this story of Barney, who as a lad was obliged to renounce his hope of a college education in favor of a clever younger brother. He stayed at the mill, worked, played his violin, and longed to be a doctor. Then, after many things had come to pass which tried his soul, and purged it of all dross, he became a preacher-doctor in the Rockies where strong men and rough loved him for his unselfish ministrations to their bodies and their souls and honored him as a power for good. In the end when he laid down his life for his friend he brought his career to its final triumph of success in failure.
+ Acad. 71: 590. D. 8, ’06. 180w.
“It is hard to see why the average adult should not find the story at once commonplace and passably long-winded.”
– Nation. 83: 464. N. 29, ’06. 160w.
“The best thing Ralph Connor has done since ‘The sky pilot,’ and perhaps the best thing he has ever done. Is a good book, both in the religious and literary senses of the word.”