Griffiths, Arthur George Frederick. [Passenger from Calais.] †$1.25. Page.
This story which records a series of adventures that begin in a sleeping-car between Calais and Basle, and come to an end on the north African shore as sprightly as one could wish. Briefly told, Lord Blackadder divorces his wife. She wishes to escape with her child whom the father also cares to possess. In order to facilitate her flight by confusing the confidential agents who might follow her, she and her twin sister gowned alike, and accompanied by maids closely resembling one another journey in different directions, the one with the child and the other with a dummy. The flight and the pursuit give rise to numerous exciting situations.
“The trouble with ‘The passenger from Calais’ ... is the lack of a certain magnetic something which in the story of mystery leads the reader onward more or less breathless, through a mass of details cunningly arranged to impede his progress and inflame his curiosity.”
– N. Y. Times. 11: 81. F. 10, ’06. 280w.
Grinnell, William Morton. Social theories and social facts. **$1. Putnam.
A discussion of the subject of the economic and social conditions of to-day with the following chapter headings: Natural and artificial laws; Trusts; Competition; Socialism; Legislation; Labor; The Cost of living; Course of wages; Railway rates. “The chief value in Mr. Grinnell’s book is that it points out the difference between political and industrial socialism and in so doing emphasizes both the true function and the real value of the corporation as a contrivance for the distribution of wealth.” (Outlook.)
“Nowadays it is comparatively rare to find anyone holding so consistently a laissez faire policy as does the author in this little volume.”
+ – Ann. Am. Acad. 27: 419. Mr. ’06. 150w.