“The first chapter really makes one look for something new, but things soon settle down into the old familiar lines.”
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Dixon, Thomas, jr. [Traitor.] †$1.50. Doubleday.
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The third novel in Mr. Dixon’s trilogy of reconstruction of which “The leopard’s spots” and “The clansman” were the first two. It deals with “the dissolution of the Ku Klux Klan and the attempt of unscrupulous men after its dissolution to use its garb and methods for personal ends.” (Outlook.) “It provides a secret panel and a secret passage, ghosts, a murder in the midst of the revelry of a masked ball of Ku Kluxes; a young man robbed of his heritage, and a young woman with coquettish curls and a Dolly Varden, who is a daughter of the thief. It makes this willful young woman suspect the young man of the murder—’twas the thief, her father, who perished by the assassin’s hand—and shows her fiercely set upon bringing him to the gallows by making him fall in love with herself, and, therefore, confidential enough to confess all.” (N. Y. Times.)
“The book cries out for the stage—the Third avenue stage. It is as full of situations, thrills, climaxes, ‘curtains,’ as a home of melodrama is of gallery gods.” Ward Clark.
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“The book is at least remarkable as a psychological phenomenon, for it is probably the first time a man has so successfully interpreted himself into the character of an historical, palpitating female.”