“It is a story in the ‘genre’ which Miss Brandon popularized and which, whatever may be said by the realists, has never entirely lost favor.”
| + − | Lit. D. 34: 217. F. 9, ’07. 220w. |
“It is, in short, too much like the ordinary mystery story by, say, Fergus Hume. Yet if you open the book you will read it through unless something or somebody very important interrupts.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 635. O. 6, ’06. 420w. |
“In the present tale he has grown less clever than he was in ‘The Arncliffe puzzle,’ but he has not ceased to be clever.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 11: 796. D. 1, ’06. 160w. |
Holt, Byron W., comp. Gold supply and prosperity. *$1. Moody corporation.
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“An able introduction and conclusion by the author, with a symposium of twenty-two papers by leading authorities on various phases of the gold supply question, make up an interesting and attractive book. In summing up the statements in the various papers of this symposium the following points are brought out: First, that for many years the output of gold will increase rapidly; second, that, therefore, a depreciation in the value of gold will inevitably result.... Like several books, which have appeared during the past few years, the author takes one item, in this case the gold supply, and attempts to show that ‘all the ills that flesh is heir to’ arise from this one cause.”—Ann. Am. Acad.