Wallace, Dillon. [Ungava Bob: a winter’s tale.] †$1.50. Revell.
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These experiences of a young fur trapper in the frozen interior of Labrador are the sort that will put a lad in the corner and keep him there until the last page is reached. There are encounters with wolves on the fur trails, intimate portrayals of the life and humanity of the Nascaupee Indians who capture and protect the hero, and stirring accounts of dangerous adventures among the ice-packs of the Labrador country.
“The story is told with the greatest simplicity and naturalness. Characters and incidents all have the touch of verity.”
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“Bob is a plucky young trapper, and his adventures are exciting enough, but the chief merit of the book lies in the pictures of life in the remote regions of Labrador and among the Indians and Eskimos of that frozen country.”
| + | Outlook. 87: 312. O. 12, ’07. 160w. |
Wallace, Helen. Coming of Isobel. $1.50. Cassell.
A story whose plot is founded upon coincidences. “When one young girl is lost we are expected to believe that another exactly like her is found; that this latter has lost her memory, and consequently acts as an innocent substitute; and finally that the foundling is no other than the half-sister of the lost girl.... Other detached coincidences roughly hew the destinies of the family of whose fortunes this book is a record.” (Ath.)