| − + | N. Y. Times. 12: 10. Ja. 5, ’07. 400w. | |
| + − | Outlook. 85: 527. Mr. 2, ’07. 120w. |
Reviewed by A. I. du Pont Coleman.
| + − | Putnam’s. 1: 629. F. ’07. 630w. |
“For one reason or another, perhaps because of some rather lengthy sentences, the present book has not quite the romantic—one might almost say the dashing—interest of others on the subject. Still, the book given to us by the well-known and accomplished author of ‘Mademoiselle Mori’ has very great merits of its own, and it will be read with interest by all who love the Italy of the fourteenth century.”
| + | Spec. 98: sup. 121. Ja. 26, ’07. 230w. |
Roberts, Morley. Flying Cloud: a story of the sea. $1.50. Page.
7–15115.
Young Jack, the greenhorn, at the opening of this tale leaves his school and his angry uncle and embarks upon the Flying Cloud to seek his fortune in Australia. But neither school nor uncle could have given him the training he received from the brown men of the crew, the two brave mates, the old Malay bo’s’n, and the captain, the victim of opium. It is a thrilling tale, the story of how Jack learned the ways of the sea and the seamen.
“We advise Mr. Roberts to let the sea alone for a while; he will only anger her by his florid compliments, and she has already a superfluity of verbose admirers. He can do better than this, and he might do excellent work if he were content to think a little more and write a great deal less.”