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Somewhat similar to “The wrecker” written by the author and his step-father, Robert Louis Stevenson. Answering an advertisement for men willing to take risks for great gain, “the adventurer” enlists in a mysterious project of seeking treasures hidden beyond the South American pampas.
“In spite of this defect of taste, and the too liberal amplification of a plot which, is at best, only a conceit, ‘The adventurer’ bids fair to take its place among a not too numerous company of Stocktonian and Stevensonian kindred.”
| + − | Nation. 85: 518. D. 5, ’07. 330w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 655. O. 19, ’07. 40w. |
“If the culmination has in it a hint of flatness, if the ending is more or less smothered in detail, it must be conceded that no solution possible to put into words would have quite the quality expected by the irresponsible and exacting reader.”
| + − | N. Y. Times. 12: 702. N. 2, ’07. 220w. |
“The opening chapters are capitally managed so as to excite curiosity and foreshadow a mystery. [Later] the tale becomes ordinary and hardly worth while even as a plot-story.”
| + − | Outlook. 87: 497. N. 2, ’07. 90w. |
Osbourne, Lloyd. Schmidt; il. by Allen True. †50c. Crowell.