Nicholl, Edith M. (Mrs. Bowyer). Human touch: a tale of the great Southwest. [†]$1.50. Lothrop.
This strenuous story tells of cattle feuds, train robberies, and kidnappers, and of David Kingdon unhappily married to a woman who leaves him and spends her life in travel. While she is on the continent David meets Sylvia and “the human touch” draws them together. The wife is reported lost at sea, Sylvia and David marry and live happily on the great cattle ranch until the first wife reappears. Heartbreaking scenes follow, the wife is selfish, but Sylvia and David are brave and at last are reunited thru the medium of the divorce court.
| * | — | Ath. 1905, 2: 467. O. 7, 320w. |
“In fact, it is a story of unusual excitement, and will hold the reader enthralled just so far as his taste may run in this kind of shotgun literature.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 307. My. 13, ‘05. 410w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 180w. |
Nicholson, Joseph Shield. History of the English corn laws. $1. Scribner.
A volume which “emphasizes particularly the connection of the corn laws with British social legislation in general, and warns against the danger of appealing to historical precedents without taking into account all the circumstances of the case.... He makes it clear that, though the corn laws did not produce constant high prices, the fluctuations in price which they did produce were an evil both to the farmer and to the consumer.”—Nation.
“This volume, though avowedly prepared to meet the present discontents, is entirely free from partisanship.”
| + + | Nation. 80: 437. Je. 1, ‘05. 410w. |
“The book is a useful treatment, in popular form, of a subject always of historical interest, and now closely connected with a topic of the day.”