| + | Dial. 38: 17. Ja. 1, ‘05. 120w. |
Phillpotts, Eden. Knock at a venture. [†]$1.50. Macmillan.
Sketches of Dartmoor men and women told largely in dialect. There is grim humor and homely tragedy, there are three cornered love affairs and affairs with more corners, there are old men and young, but all are real. The stories include, The mound by the way, The crossways; Corban; A pickaxe and a spade; and Benjamin’s mess.
| Acad. 68: 906. S. 2, ‘05. 310w. |
“Mr. Phillpotts writes always picturesquely, and often with surprising vividness.”
| + | Ath. 1905, 2: 368. S. 16. 370w. |
“Written in a light vein for the most part, yet laden also with a certain quaint and primitive philosophy.” Frederic Taber Cooper.
| + | Bookm. 22: 234. N. ‘05. 470w. |
“He knows his people and presents them to us with truth and vigour. There are no false notes. The last touch is wanting, the spell that can send a glow of life and beauty over every page; and they remain readable stories, lively and convincing, but not very new.”
| + | Lond. Times. 4: 287. S. 8, ‘05. 400w. |