| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 299. My. 11, ’07. 310w. |
“Miss Davis not only makes very real both the atmosphere of somnolent Dixieland and the rattle and bustle and determined energy that are waking it up, but she also has the knack of weaving a plot and the ability to invent incidents and situations and to depict character.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 12: 349. Je. 15, ’07. 130w. |
Davis, Richard Harding. Real soldiers of fortune. **$1.50. Scribner.
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Mr. Davis sketches “the kind of man who in any walk of life makes his own fortune, who, when he sees it come, leaps to meet it and turns it to his advantage.” The group includes Gen. William Walker, Baron Harden-Hickey, General MacIver, Winston Spencer Churchill, Capt. Philo Norton McGiffen, and Major Burnham.
“Written with the author’s usual spirit and dash.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 8. Ja. ’07. S. |
“A collection of biographical sketches of unequal merit.”