“It would be difficult to find in any language a more direct and forceful account of heroic adventures and careless lust for new sights and strange experiences. Together with the narratives of Coronado’s expedition in the Southwest, an earlier volume of the “Trail makers’ series,” it is the best possible account of the aboriginal condition of the southern United States.”
| + + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 57. Ja. 12, ‘05. 360w. | |
| + | R. of Rs. 31: 249. F. ‘05. 120w. | |
| + + | Sat. R. 99: 814. Je. 17, ‘05. 100w. |
Sousa, John Philip. Pipetown Sandy. [†]$1.50. Bobbs.
A story of Pipetown, its boys, its schools, and its grown people. Sandy, the hero, already a leader on the playground, leaves the foot of the class and wins the prize in arithmetic and geography thru the influence of Colonel Franklin’s weak little son whom he makes his friend. Sandy also helps the store keeper to win the widow Foley, and takes an active part in the tragic scenes which follow her worthless husband’s reappearance in Pipetown.
“Here we have the annals of a typical American village told with the simplicity and the charm of a Goldsmith and the added interest of a writer whose intensity of feeling and vivid imagination have enabled him to invest simple life and homely circumstances with compelling fascination.”
| + + | Arena. 34: 551. N. ‘05. 200w. |
“Parts of the story are really human and attractive.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 744. N. 4, ‘05. 200w. |
“It is difficult to see how it can be of any real value. It cannot contribute to the formation of an exalted taste in literature; and a boy with a good taste already formed would not care much for it.”
| — | Outlook. 81: 135. S. 16, ‘05. 90w. |