7–21225.
An overworked surgeon goes to the northern wilds to rest and to avert a nervous breakdown. While there the miracle of restoration is wrought thru a night of service to a woman whose life he fought for and won.
Brown, Kenneth. Sirocco: a novel. $1.50. Kennerley.
6–19771.
“This tale is described as ‘a thrilling story of the Arabian desert;’ and as dealing with the ‘most uncivilized of North African despotisms.’ It deals with a country existing only in the author’s rather unbridled imagination. His ‘Sirocco’ is clearly meant to be Morocco; but, while it may resemble a tourist’s dream of that country, it is far from resembling the real Moghreb.”—Ath.
“‘Thrilling’ the story may possibly prove to the unfastidious reader who likes his fiction hot and strong; but its glaring impossibilities, not to mention improbabilities, will militate against appreciation of such merits as it possesses. It owes something to the ‘Naulahka,’ but lacks the artistry of that ingenious extravaganza.”
| − + | Ath. 1907, 1: 658. Je. 1. 2860w. |
“It is written in a crisp, virile style, and the contrasts between the Americanisms of the American and the very Oriental situations in which he finds himself are brought out in a racy and picturesque fashion.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 376. Je. 9, ’06. 300w. |