With their scenes laid in the mountain regions of Colorado and Arizona, these stories show how courage and devotion to purpose dominate the laying of tracks, the building of bridges, and the tunneling of mountains for the western railroad. “Each of the twelve is represented by a deed of rare heroism or one which shows conspicuously a quick and ready hand and a cool, resourceful head.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Some gems of the story-teller’s art, very pure in ray. Strictly speaking, it is not a novel, yet the ten stories are so welded together by the rails of the ‘Western central,’ the brotherhood of the characters, and the common atmosphere of the events, that the book possesses a oneness unattained by many a professed unity. They are thrilling healthful tales, told in crisp, lucid, scintillating English.”
| + | Ind. 62: 1526. Je. 27, ’07. 170w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 382. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. |
Kerr, Walter S. Arcadian proscript: a historical drama in five acts. pa. $1. Walter S. Kerr & co., P. O. box 377 Oakland, Cal.
7–17379.
The Grand Pré which Longfellow’s poem immortalizes furnishes the setting of Mr. Kerr’s drama. His hero is a “proscript,” a legal outlaw. The British governor of Nova Scotia “is one of the villains of the play which is tragic, of course, and romantic, and was obviously designed for theatrical representation.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Has evidently worked with great zeal and unmistakable faith in the historical value of his subject. It is graphically written and full of movement.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 301. My. 11, ’07. 260w. |