Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“He impresses one as being more true than Mr. Jack London, with a measurably broader outlook than Mr. Thompson Seton, and more vigorous, more actual than Dr. van Dyke. There are times when one cannot help wishing that he would be a shade less conscientiously breezy in his language.”
| + − | Acad. 72: 386. Ap. 20, ’07. 580w. |
White, Stewart Edward, and Adams, Samuel Hopkins. [Mystery]; il. by Will Crawford. †$1.50. McClure.
7–2060.
“The plot turns upon the mysterious and wonderful happenings that occurred on a volcanic island in the Pacific and upon equally strange and uncanny encounters on the high seas. A long series of happenings follow. More astonishing than anything that ever occurred to the imagination of Stevenson or Marryat.”—Lit. D.
“The book is a happy mixture of R. L. Stevenson and Mr. H. G. Wells.”
| + | Acad. 72: 441. My. 4, ’07. 360w. | |
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 79. Mr. ’07. ✠ |
“The authors indulge in more slang and technical detail of a marine sort than the ordinary reader can readily grasp.”