“The author has given a good measure of mystery, and has kept the assassin’s identity well veiled until the end of the book.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 665. O. 13, ’06. 270w. Sat. R. 101: 369. Mr. 24, ’06. 120w.
Hume, Fergus W. [Opal serpent.] †$1.25. Dillingham.
A struggling young writer, disinherited, at least temporarily, by an irascible father, and the daughter of a fear-shaken man who is a book-stall keeper by day and a pawn broker by night, in the cellar below, live thru a succession of mysteries, fears and catastrophes all of which seem secretly connected with a jewelled serpent. In the tangle-straightening process, Mr. Hume’s usual number of odd types appear.
“All who retain a partiality for tales of mystery and incident will welcome ‘The opal serpent.’”
+ – Ath. 1905, 2: 268. Ag. 26. 190w. Lit. D. 32: 532. Ap. 7, ’06. 140w.
“The matter is the matter of such yarns from the beginning, the manner is the manner or Fergus Hume, which is fair to middlin’—of its kind.”
+ – N. Y. Times. 11: 133. Mr. 3, ’06. 220w. Pub. Opin. 40: 444. Ap. 7, ’06. 150w.
Hume, John T. Abolitionists: together with personal memoirs of the struggle for human rights. **$1. Putnam.