| + − | Acad. 73: 43. O. 19, ’07. 220w. |
“The character of this delectable volume is that of the ‘shilling shocker.’ It is an ordinary sensational story of the stereotyped sort.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 297. S. 14. 70w. |
“While audacious and seemingly rather bold in the beginning of Sydney Pasternoster’s new motor car story, is proved in the end to be courageous and loving.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 384. Je. 15, ’07. 110w. |
Paterson, Arthur Henry. John Glynn; a novel of social work. †$1.50. Holt.
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John Glynn is an Englishman who has made a fortune in America on her rough frontier and goes back to London to do settlement work in that unlovely quarter known as The Nile. Here he works side by side with a young woman who is secretary of his district and this, of course, furnishes the romance of the book, but its vital interest lies in the life of the criminal quarter in which they labor and in the strong characters, both good and evil, which they encounter.
“The more serious will welcome a book which contains more than a mere love-story, while those who do not care for too thoughtful fiction will find an exciting and convincing novel, in which the characters are alive, and the interest is sustained to the end.”