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A dramatic tale of the Pennsylvania oil region in which a sturdy Scotchman who refused to sell his farm to the oil syndicate is the victim of intrigue. In it are pictured the newly rich in the complete reaction from financial restraint, smooth-tongued conspirators, spotters and moonshiners.
“Melodramatic fiction.”
| − | Nation. 85: 401. O. 31, ’07. 280w. |
* Canning, Albert S. G. Shakespeare studied in six plays. **$4. Jacobs.
The six plays studied are Othello, Macbeth, King John, Richard II., Henry IV., and The merry wives of Windsor. The method is one of exposition rather than analysis, consisting of a succession of quotations interspersed with explanatory remarks.
“Its author is a master of the prosaic, nor have we encountered any other commentator equally skilled in the art of reducing noble poetry to small beer.”
| − | Acad. 72: 85. Ja. 26, ’07. 1100w. |