| + | Sat. R. 101: 764. Je. 16, ’06. 170w. |
“A non-legal reader, if he is interested in historical and social questions, will find it full of noteworthy matter.”
| + | Spec. 96: 589. Ap. 14, ’06. 270w. |
Leblanc, Maurice. Exploits of Arsène Lupin; tr. by A. Teixeira De Mattos. †$1.28. Harper.
7–31976.
Arsène Lupin is a gentleman burglar whose mind, cunning, gracious manners and clever histrionic powers are all employed in paving an artistic way for the trickery of his profession. Followed out into mid-ocean by a wireless message, his disguise wards off suspicion, and even while crossing he steals money and jewels and tucks them away in the very kodak that aids him in his love making with the girl whose aunt he robs; Lupin is his own narrator, and occasionally in whisking about to an objective point of view he tracks himself to cover with the reader eager in pursuit.
“The stories, aside from the unaccountable manner of their unfolding, are of uneven merit, but some are capital.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 545. D. 12, ’07. 280w. |
“His adventures are thrillingly and gracefully told.”