Phillips, E. C. See Looker, Mrs. Horace B.
Phillips, Henry Wallace. [Plain Mary Smith: a romance of Red Saunders.] [†]$1.50. Century.
Red Saunders’ first appearance as the principal figure in a long story will delight readers who have known his sturdy traits and original humor in short story fiction. Not being able to stand up under the indignities heaped upon him by a father who “felt some scornful toward the Almighty for such a weak and frivolous institution as Heaven,” the lad when eighteen runs away to sea; and on board the Matilda bound for Panama, he meets Plain Mary Smith—plain only in name. How he enters into her romance only as the champion of the real lover, and how he fights Panamans at the close of a lively revolution with quart cans of tomatoes are phases of a humorously interesting tale.
“Adventures follow one another swiftly, and Red Saunders relates them all with wit and vigorous bad grammar.”
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“In the relation of the narrative there is much of the humorous whimsicality of subject and style which has distinguished Mr. Phillips’s shorter stories. Yet there is also a regrettable thinness.”
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Phillips, Stephen. Sin of David. [**]$1.25. Macmillan.
This three act drama, is not biblical, altho it is founded on an action analogous to that of David to Uriah, the Hittite. The play opens in the army of Cromwell and proceeds during the course of the English civil war. It is the story of the love of Sir Hubert Lisle for the wife of a Puritan captain, the crime which made their marriage possible, and their punishment.
“It is, however, creditable accomplishment, and up to the level of Mr. Phillips’s previous work.”