+ + Spec. 97: 791. N. 17, ’06. 170w.
Houston, Edwin James. Young prospector. †$1.50. Wilde.
Harry Maxwell and his friend Ned Cartwright, two alert, ambitious boys, go West in search of the gold mine where Harry’s father lost his life. The book, aside from being full of adventure illustrates how information useful to boys may be worked into attractive form.
Howard, Bronson. Kate, a comedy in four acts. †$1.25. Harper.
The modern marriage question, the barter of soulless men and women for great wealth and great names, and the final triumph of love and human nature is dealt with in this reading version of Bronsor Howard’s new play. In the course of four acts entitled, When marriage is a farce, Love and legal documents, Stronger than law or rite, and Which would be wife, three mismated couples are re-assorted and all are left happier than if Kate had won her coronet. The dialogue is startlingly frank and pithy, the characters varied and the plot well worked out.
“The play is interesting reading, but carries no conviction with it.”
+ – Nation. 83: 421. N. 15, ’06. 390w.
“Except that the four chapters are called ‘acts,’ the book looks quite like one of those modern novels which are rich in conversation. The effect of the method, which is a new one, is excellent, and no confusion arises from the circumstance that the form is not that of the prompt book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 685. O. 20, ’06. 880w.