“The sentiment in it is very pretty, and Mr. Booth Tarkington never writes other than gracefully.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 358. Je. 3, ‘05. 410w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 390. Je. 17, ‘05. 200w. |
[*] “He tells it, too, with the fine artistic flavor distinguishing his ‘Monsieur Beaucaire.’”
| + | R. of Rs. 32: 760, D. ‘05. 70w. |
[*] Tarkington, (Newton) Booth. [Conquest of Canaan.] [†]$1.50. Harper.
Canaan is a small Indiana town, a hot bed of personal grudge and prejudice and this story tells of how Joe Louden, returning to Canaan to practice law after years of hard study in New York, finds that his reckless youth and his departure from his home town under a cloud have neither been forgotten nor forgiven. But championed by Ariel Taylor, the one true friend of his boyhood, who has just returned from the study of art in Paris, he succeeds after a hard and upright struggle in conquering circumstances and the prejudices of his townspeople. The love story of these two strongly individual characters is unusual and well handled.
[*] “It contains some admirable chapters of life in a small, gossipy, spiteful town, and the characters, all of them, including the dog, are alive and interesting, but it is clumsily put together and weakly conventional in the concluding portion.”
| + — | Ind. 59: 1153. N. 16, ‘05. 150w. |
[*] “For pure humor in an author, we commend the conversations of the old window owls in the National house.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1480. D. 21, ‘05. 900w. |