| + + | Pub. Opin. 38: 755. My. 13, ‘05. 360w. |
“It is a word panorama of its great battles and sieges by one who has studied the characters of the men of the two nations engaged in it. The style of this narrative is highly direct and intense, full of life and color.”
| + + + | Reader. 6: 597. O. ‘05. 180w. |
“The merely literary merits of his book are great. Most of the book can only be described as lurid; and yet the author writes simply, is never rhetorical, and clearly labours to be temperate and exact. The book is not impartial, sometimes it is palpably unfair, and now and then it is impossibly fantastic. But at its best it comes nearer a kind of genius than any war correspondence we remember.”
| + + — | Spec. 94: 405. Mr. 18, ‘05. 800w. |
Young, Egerton Ryerson. Hector my dog. $1.50. Wilde.
Hector grows very human to the animal lover as with a high degree of intelligence he records his dog thoughts and narrates his Northland adventures. Particularly interesting is the author’s suggestion that the devotion and loyalty which a dog renders his master must be preserved as a part of all good in the final reckoning.
[*] “Knows his subject and its surroundings thoroughly.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 821. D. 2, ‘05. 90w. |
[*] “He has written some excellent descriptions of sledge-trips and other characteristic experiences of that frozen country, but his book, as a whole, is marred by a touch of sentimentality and a tendency to point a moral.”