“It is a mistake to weary the reader with details of domestic events, marriages, births, and so on, which have nothing to do with the story.”
+ – Sat. R. 102: 647. N. 24, ’06. 190w.
“Mrs. Fraser has made her book hang together rather more closely than is the case with most historical novels.”
+ – Spec. 97: 442. S. 29, ’06. 490w.
Fraser, William Alexander. Thirteen men. †$1.50. Appleton.
Thirteen stories of life in Canada and the East Indies. One of the men happens to be a fighting ram, one a king cobra, another a coon, and still another a collie dog, but they claim the reader’s interest no less than the “squaw-man,” the college-bred man and the Scotch lumberman.
“One ought not to quarrel with Mr. Fraser’s stories for what they are not when they are so much that is clever and interesting. For they are about things that grip the heart, and they march along with a brave, gay manner that is like a whiff of sea wind.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 676. O. 13, ’06. 320w.
“In these stories the matter as well as the manner shows the deadening influence of facile imitation.”