| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 250. Ap. 20, ’07. 680w. |
“An ingenious and absorbing and tantalizing mystery story.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 380. Je. 15, ’07. 180w. |
Fraser, William Alexander. Lone furrow. †$1.50. Appleton.
7–6653.
The thread of gold running through Mr. Fraser’s self-styled “homespun web” is a broken-hearted wife whose husband, a young Scotch clergyman, deserted her. “With its leisureliness, its element of mystery (in the vulgar sense), and its prevailing atmosphere of religious inquiry, it recalls some of the later stories of George Macdonald.” (Nation.)
“To put it kindly, not one of his happy efforts.” Frederick Taber Cooper.
| − | Bookm. 25: 89. Mr. ’07. 420w. |
“It is hardly more than a vigorous statement of an interesting situation followed by a prolonged and rambling commentary upon that situation.”