“The effect as a whole is not convincing. The author’s style is rather stilted and the dialogue is somewhat less than natural.”
– Critic. 49: 284. S. ’06. 160w.
“Otherwise the story is exceptionally well put together, and rises steadily toward a climax of interest that proves fairly enthralling.” Wm. M. Payne.
+ – Dial. 41: 38. Jl. 16, ’06. 230w. Ind. 61: 213. Jl. 26, ’06. 50w. – N. Y. Times. 11: 386. Je. 16, ’06. 110w.
Barbour, Ralph Henry. [Crimson sweater.] †$1.50. Century.
Life at the Ferry Hill school as Roy Porter, brother of Porter of the Harvard eleven, found it, forms an interesting study of the smallness and the breadth of various boy natures as well as a series of pictures of football, hockey, cross country runs, boat racing, base-ball, and other sports as they were played there. Harry, daughter of the head-master, furnishes a wholesome girl element and is Roy’s comrade thru the various ups and downs that made up his school life from the time when, as a boy, he rescued her pet rabbit, to the time when, having won his place as leader of the school, he is carried on the shoulders of his triumphant classmates at the close of the game in which Ferry Hill at last beat Hammond.
Nation. 83: 484. D. 6, ’06. 110w.
“Although the book was intended primarily for boys, the wholesome, outdoorsy girl will find it just as interesting on account of the hearty friendship between the boy and one of his girl schoolmates.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 683. O. 20, ’06. 140w.