“Everybody in the book is a live human being, and they are all carried along by the skillful story teller who has a very neat and effective style and a happy knack of characterization.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 91. F. 16. ’07. 770w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 386. Je. 15, ’07. 210w. |
“As a sea-story the book is capital, as a novel it is nothing.”
| + − | Outlook. 85: 718. Mr. 23, ’07. 90w. |
* Train, Arthur Cheney. [Mortmain.] †$1.50. Appleton.
7–33597.
Eight stories, each of which deals with some sort of adventure. “‘A man hunt’ seems the modern New York equivalent for the complicated expeditions with which du Boisgobe thrilled Paris in the seventies; but ‘A study of sociology,’ with its sinister termination, gives a welcome glimpse of Mr. Train’s special knowledge, and approaches more nearly to the realistic interest of ‘A prisoner at the bar.’” (Nation.)
“Within their obvious limits, these stories are good. They are quick, lively, ingenious, better written than the majority of their class, more competently worked out, less childish.”
| + | Nation. 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 160w. |