This story opens upon a wintry afternoon in a district school house when a class reciting in “Green’s grammar” is interrupted by a tramp and his dog who beg shelter and warmth for an hour. The tramp finds among the pupils a kindred soul who one day joins the wanderer and casts in his lot with him. Their experiences end in the boy’s reforming the “bad man,” who in turn plans for the education of the lad whose mother had been his sweetheart and had found him unworthy.
“Some of the descriptions are fairly well done, but the incidents are often extravagant, and the characterization cannot be highly praised.”
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Neame, L. E. Asiatic danger in the colonies. *$1.25. Dutton.
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Six years of study in Asia and South Africa lie back of Mr. Neame’s portrayal of the subject. He shows “how insidiously the patient and stable races of the Orient are at work undermining the white man’s boasted power, and how concrete is the peril.” (N. Y. Times.)
“Undoubtedly the facts presented by the author lead to the conclusion that the only effective method of securing that a land equally adapted for Europeans and Asiatics should be made a home for European settlers is that of almost total exclusion, adopted by Australia, joined to a fixed determination on the part of Europeans to engage in all forms of manual work themselves.” (Lond. Times.)
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| J. Pol. Econ. 15: 642. D. ’07. 260w. |