Parrish, Randall. [Beth Norvell.] †$1.50. McClurg.
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Again the West furnishes the setting of Mr. Parrish’s story. An ambitious young actress, with a past that has linked her with an adventurer and gambler, and a young mining engineer meet in a small town of Colorado. Their romance is brought well into the foreground of the story while western color is provided by the sturdy miners of the Little Yankee whose claims the young engineer defends against the aforementioned gambler. Tragedy, misunderstanding and years of waiting precede the wholly satisfactory dénouement.
“It is occasionally amateurish as to the manner of telling but absorbing as to incident and plot.”
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3. 203. N. ’07. |
“Here is the good old style of western melodrama, which, we suppose and hope, will never die out.”
| + | Ath. 1907, 2: 580. N. 9. 130w. |
“The story itself fairly revels in the old familiar conventions.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| − + | Bookm. 26: 270. N. ’07. 320w. |