Thurston, Ernest Temple. Traffic, the story of a faithful woman. †$1.50. Dillingham.
6–29093.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“As in ‘The apple of Eden,’ Mr. Thurston dissects deep and pitilessly as the modern Frenchman: but even in this candidly repellant theme, he keeps a certain fervor which makes his work worth while for adult readers of firm nerves and serious mind.” Mary Moss.
| + − | Atlan. 99: 116. Ja. ’07. 420w. |
Thurston, Katherine Cecil. Mystics, il. †$1.25. Harper.
7–14253.
A strong young man loving life and freedom serves an ascetic uncle for seven years. The uncle dies bequeathing his vast wealth to a sect known as the Mystics. A sense of deep wrong leads the nephew to violate the uncle’s dying request to guard the sacred book of the sect until it could be turned over to one of the leaders. He copies it word for word, finds that the Mystics look forward to the appearing of a prophet, decides to play the rôle himself and to appear at the proper moment, his one aim being to secure the money out of which these people had defrauded him. His course leads to a dramatic though logical dénouement.
“The characters are mere puppets without a semblance of life, and the episodes of the story are vague and loosely put together.”