[*] “The book suffers from being crudely translated from the German.”
| + — | Nation. 81: 430. N. 23, ‘05. 510w. | |
| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 874. D. 9, ‘05. 130w. |
| * | Outlook. 81: 576. N. 4, ‘05. 30w. |
Phillips, David Graham. [Deluge.] [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
The hero of Mr. Graham’s story is as intrepid in love as in battling against Wall street magnates. Simply stated, he is a man who won’t be downed,—in the world of finance when a power rises against him he hunts for a tiger to fight the bull, and in the battle with giants, makes his escape; as for his romance, he quietly determines to marry a girl in a social world above him, carries his point, and then proceeds to win her love.
[*] “As usual, he has written a readable story, but its extravagance deprives it of any claim to be taken seriously.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 887. D. 9, ‘05. 90w. |
“If the author, as one must infer, intended that we should admire Blacklock, he is likely to be disappointed.”
| + — | Pub. Opin. 39: 633. N. 11, ‘05. 260w. | |
| * | — | R. of Rs. 32: 757. D. ‘05, 60w. |
Phillips, David Graham. [Plum tree.] $1.50. Bobbs.
A story of the tree of political plums. A young country lawyer is driven by poverty to accept an assemblyman’s salary from the hands of a “boss,” and when his conscience forces him to vote against a bad bill he is thrown out of office. He becomes a reform county prosecutor, but fails in re-election and accepts a position as lawyer for the power company which he had been actively fighting. He makes a rich but loveless marriage, becomes a United States senator, and in the end, looking back upon the seething furnace of corruption thru which he has passed, finds comfort in the love of the girl he had renounced in his days of poverty.