“The author has made an interesting tale of swift action and high motives, and has told it with a simplicity and dignity of style worthy of a higher grade of work.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 37. Ja. 19, ’07. 410w. |
Whitaker, Herman. [Settler.] †$1.50 Harper.
7–32564.
Manitoba in its primeval loneliness is the scene of his story. A gently reared girl enters the wilderness to care for her brother in his last illness. After his death she marries a rough, crude, strong-hearted settler, then permits her regret for the step to drive the pride-hurt man from her. The situations which grow out of the separation and final reunion are all intensified by the savagery of the wild surroundings.
“A rapid, active tale of adventure.”
| + | Nation. 85: 474. N. 21, ’07. 190w. |
“Much information may be gleaned from ‘The settler’ relating to lumber camps and farming lands of the Canadian Northwest and to the effects on its industrial conditions of the scheming of railway monopolists. We submit that the attempted realism here, especially in the freedom of speech employed by the women, is, in any case, unnecessarily offensive.”