Dix, Edwin Asa. Prophet’s Landing: a novel. †$1.50. Scribner.
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The rigor of monopoly in the early seventies in its iconoclastic treatment of the cherished idols of sentiment furnishes the motif of this story. A department store proprietor becomes a magnate thru the exercise of mighty business genius minus heart. His octopus methods work havoc in hearts and homes in Prophet’s Landing, and the events which follow one another in rapid succession show the ultimate futility of greed, tho it shelter itself under the moral law.
| + − | A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 134. My. ’07. ✠ |
“The story is entitled to a place in the honorable line of our New England fiction.”
| + | Ind. 63: 339. Ag. 8, ’07. 240w. |
“The characters in this wholesome novel are strongly drawn. A simple tho powerful love-story traverses it, and there are interesting descriptions of New England life.”
| + | Lit. D. 34: 841. My. 25, ’07. 280w. |
“A good, obvious tract, which might be more serviceable than literature of a higher order, if it could conceivably be held before the eyes of the wicked shopkeeper and the wickeder railroad man.”