“The interest of the story lies entirely in the author’s realisation and vivid picture of eighteenth century personages and their surroundings.”
| + | Spec. 97: 181. F. 2, ’07. 160w. |
Craddock, Charles Egbert, pseud. (Mary Noailles Murfree). Windfall: a novel. †$1.50. Duffield.
7–15119.
The youthful and breezy manager of a street fair is lured by excursion rates to take his show to a small town in the Great Smoky mountains, and upon arrival realizes that he has been duped and that there are but a handful of people in the county. He sticks it out, however, becomes involved in the discovery of an illicit still, and incidentally, wins a bride, and a windfall.
“It is a good, stirring piece of melodrama, with here and there some characterization of a sort superior to that of many more pretentious works of fiction—pleasant and entertaining, but marred by undisciplined verbosity.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 614. N. 16. 150w. |
“The writer shows herself still capable of using the old material to excellent effect, although it would be foolish to deny that she has worked the vein until it shows signs of exhaustion.” Wm. M. Payne.
| + − | Dial. 42: 315. My. 16, ’07. 290w. |