6–25984.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“The author ... brings to her work noticeable strength of thought and unusual feeling for rhythm.”
| + | Outlook. 85: 858. Ap. 13, ’07. 160w. |
Smith, Mary P. Wells. Boys of the border. †$1.25. Little.
7–31225.
Events in the Deerfield valley during the French and Indian wars are narrated in this third volume of “The old Deerfield series,” which brings the history of western Massachusetts down to the revolutionary period. The tale of the border forts is told in a spirited fashion true to the times and scenes, the early settlers, their hardships, their sturdy endurance, are all clearly pictured in the course of the narrative which is told in a simple, personal fashion that will appeal to young readers.
| N. Y. Times. 12: 670. O. 19, ’07. 10w. |
“The general boy reader will, we fancy, rather protest at the overloading of details and the sad record of slaughter in the ending chapter.”