“Rather above the average of his later work. It escapes his besetting tendency to be over-fantastic, and tells a reasonably straightforward tale of villainy unearthed and virtue rewarded. It is, of course, cheaply melodramatic throughout, but the excitement is well-contrived.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 42: 377. Je. 16, ’07. 180w. |
“A veritable pot-boiler of the poorest quality.”
| − | Ind. 62: 970. Ap. 25, ’07. 100w. | |
| Nation. 84: 136. F. 7, ’07. 240w. |
“The most that can be said in the book’s favor is that the author has shown a good deal of ingenuity in the invention of incident. For the rest it is an illy-done piece of novel writing, clumsy in the construction, and in the telling splotched all over with the discredited tinsel and gew-gaws of melodrama.”
| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 119. F. 23, ’07. 370w. |
Pendexter, Hugh. Tiberius Smith: as chronicled by his right-hand man Billy Campbell. †$1.50. Harper.
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A new edition of the adventures of Tiberius Smith, the clever showman, who never faces a situation so perilous that his quick wit and keen sense of humor cannot effect a way of escape. Even lunatics and lions do not daunt him.