Buster Brown becomes a sage, a philosopher, and a humorist by turns in Mr. Outcault’s “Resolutions.” Of course it is Mr. Outcault with his little favorite as a mouthpiece, yet Buster and Tige suddenly grow virtuous beyond their years.
Oxenham, John. Long road. †$1.50. Macmillan.
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The long road is the way that marks the exile’s journey from Russia to Siberia. Traveled by a Russian and his wife and child in punishment for the offence of snuff-taking, it terminates in a little Siberian village where the grim cruelty of a despot governer works havoc in hearts and homes.
“But when all is said, it remains a straight-forward narrative, capable of giving pleasure to a not too exacting or critical public.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 345. Ap. 6, ’07. 120w. |
“Notwithstanding the painful incidents of their travels, the effect of the story is inspiring, not depressing.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 179. O. ’07. ✠ |
“It verges more than once upon melodrama, but at least it pictures the desolation of unbroken stretches of snow with a haunting force not easily to be duplicated in modern fiction.” Frederic Taber Cooper.