| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 313. Mr. 16. 1820w. |
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
| Putnam’s. 1: 631. F. ’07. 530w. |
Hyde, Henry M. Upstart. †$1.50. Century.
6–34689.
“Pat, ‘the upstart,’ son of a drunken Irish soldier who yet dies a heroic death, and of a bighearted washerwoman, fights his way up bravely, is not ashamed of his mother or of his finespirited and jolly Aunt Bridget, makes his mark as a lawyer and politician, and finally ‘gets the girl’—the daughter of a raging Berserker of a Swede (we suppose it is a Swede, the book says ‘Dootchman’), who is ‘King’ of the country all about, and with his six stalwart boys has terrorized the people.”—Outlook.
“It is a realistic narrative, simple and straightforward, with touches of humor, and unpretentiously successful in its execution.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 314. My. 16, ’07. 100w. |
“Mr. Hyde has written a novel that is interesting as a story and not without value as a document of that phase of American life that is seen in the Middle West.”