Gallon, Tom. [Cruise of the make-believes.] †$1.50. Little.
7–32034.
A romantic idyl of a modern prince and a beggar maid. The girl drudges in a poor quarter of London to support a shiftless father and brother, but she dreams and keeps her soul alive by a make-believe Eden. A young millionaire becomes interested in her and in trying to help her tangles things sadly. The father and brother drain him financially, the girl he would help is made unhappy; but in the end he is fortunate enough to lose his money and in love and poverty he and Bessie find a real land of make-believe.
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Gallon, Tom. [Tinman.] †$1.50. Small.
A young artist deliberately murders the slanderer of Barbara Patton, the woman he loves, gives himself up, covers the real motive of his crime and is imprisoned for life. After twenty years he is freed only to be drawn into a reenactment of the crime for the sake of Barbara’s daughter. Thruout the entire dramatic course of the tale the love motif is strongest, it sounds out above the grim note of crime, suffering and domineering will.
“The first portion of the book, though somewhat lurid in method, would have made a strong and unusual short story; but the further development of events ... conveys an unmistakable flavour of nothing higher or nobler than the typical dime novel.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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