“His fancy is fertile and it imagines large canvases. He almost fills them, but not quite. It is in dealing with the emotions of his characters in the powerful situations in which he places them that Mr. Rideout still falls short: he leaves a little too much to the collaboration of the reader.”
| + − | Ind. 62: 915. Ap. 18, ’07. 260w. |
“‘Wild justice’ stands out with almost startling distinctness against the pale mediocrity of current magazine fiction.”
| + | Nation. 83: 485. D. 6, ’06. 190w. |
“All of these three tales, but more especially the first have quite unusual vigor and originality. The author’s chief fault is a somewhat abrupt manner.”
| + − | Outlook. 84. 1080. D. 29, ’06. 120w. |
Rideout, Henry Milner. Siamese cat; il. by Will Grefe. †$1.25. McClure.
7–15114.
A love story in which a Siamese cat and a pigeon-blood ruby figure largely. It “swings along at a high speed and there is plenty of Asiatic coast atmosphere, of the semi-tourist, semi-native sort. The local color, appears veracious with its mixture of bad smells and pink mists and ruined temples and calm homicides and pigin English and poisonings and stabbings while you wait.” (N. Y. Times.)