Fox, John, jr. [Knight of the Cumberland], il. by F. C. Yohn. †$1. Scribner.
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Mr. Fox has created “the very model of a story” (Nation) out of ingredients a little old and a little new. His knight is a “quaint, picturesque conception, a moonshiner’s son who seems to have been born out of his class or out of his century.” (N. Y. Times.) His heroine is known as “The Blight” because “nor man nor woman nor sixteen-hand-high mule could resist her.” (Nation.) There is an unusual commingling of tournament, duel, and very American stump-speaking. “And it is this very incongruity which renders the tale fascinating.” (Acad.)
“Attractive and original tale.”
| + | Acad. 71: 612. D. 15, ’06. 170w. |
“Light, delightful little story.”
| + | A. L. A. Bkl. 2: 246. D. ’06. ✠ |
“The whole story makes glad the sense of symmetry, compact as it is of fun, manners, and motives, as they flourish in the land that we almost think of as created by Mr. Fox.”
| + | Nation. 83: 441. N. 22, ’06. 180w. |