Bindloss, Harold. [Mistress of Bonaventure.] *$1. Fenno.
Cattle raising in the Northwest, its difficulties and the dangers from man and nature that beset it, is the burden of this tale. The Canadian mounted police figure in the story which combines love, adventure and practical business. In the end the railroad penetrates that wild country and it finds the rancher hero successful both in love and labor and the frank little mistress of Bonaventure happy in her hero and her prairies.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 20w. |
Bindloss, Harold. [Winston of the prairie.] †$1.50. Stokes.
7–29150.
The hero of Mr. Bindloss’ story of the Canadian northwest is a young man under unjust suspicion of murder who has traded names with a man of low caliber and who when he wishes to return to his own name finds it stained with crime. This “impersonation of another man leads to exciting complications, and it is difficult to see how he is going to extricate himself from the false position in which he is placed. But his services to the little farming community, which he teaches to win prosperity out of seeming disaster, are so substantial that when the hour of disentanglement comes, he both clears his name and finds condonation for his deception.” (Dial.)
“In the wheat-raising region of western Canada, Mr. Bindloss has found a field almost as virgin to the novelist as to the agriculturist, and so subdued it to his purposes that his work will not easily be matched.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 43: 252. O. 16, ’07. 290w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 12: 656. O. 19, ’07. 60w. |