| + − | Lond. Times. 6: 357. N. 22, ’07. 450w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 652. O. 19, ’07. 50w. |
“His new book will rank with his ‘The four feathers’ as a capital piece of clear, direct, romantic narrative—intensely exciting, yet not unduly sensational.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 827. D. 14, ’07. 260w. |
Mason, Alfred E. W. [Running water.] †$1.50. Century.
7–7196.
Whatever of deep sentiment, of resolution and also of villainy there is in the tale is magnetically associated with the ice fields of the Alps above Chamonix. There is an unrelated company of people upon the stage of the little drama, chief among whom is a brave-hearted girl who took her lesson of life from the Alpine guides—“If you have knowledge that can save a life—well you have got to use it, that’s the law.” Tired of her mother’s vain life, she hunts up her father, whom she has never seen, and tries to operate the law she had learned by saving a soul from the net which her dissolute father had drawn about it. The tale is one of her failures and successes.
“Here it would seem that all the elements that go to make a novelist of the highest rank were present, and yet the novel itself belongs to the hopeless second grade of literature.”
| − + | Acad. 72: 205. Mr. 2, ’07. 1640w. |
“The characters are more than ordinarily well-drawn, but the situations are painful, and, on the whole, the book leaves an unpleasant impression.”