Crewdson, Charles N. [Tales of the road.] $1.50. Thompson & Thomas.
“The author’s object is not merely to tell amusing anecdotes about his own and others’ experiences as commercial travellers ... but to give some practical hints and suggestions to young men just beginning to ‘go on the road’; yet the book is, after all, chiefly a collection of anecdotes.”—Outlook.
[*] “Some of these are amusing; others are rather tedious. Perhaps it may most aptly be compared with such a book as ‘Letters from a self-made merchant to his son,’ but it lacks the originality and shrewd homely humor which made that book so deservedly popular.”
| + — | Outlook. 81: 283. S. 30, ‘05. 120w. |
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford. Cherry ribband: a novel. [†]$1.50. Barnes.
“Raith Ellison, the son of a grim, blind, old Scotchman, lets his eyes rest on Ivie Rysland, the daughter of Sergeant Grif Rysland of his majesty’s dragoons, quartered in Scotland for the express purpose of suppressing the conventicles. For this he is cast off by his father and enlists in Rysland’s troop. In the course of time he comes to be one of the jailers of his majesty’s prison on the Bass, where his own father and brother are confined. Later on, by an unexpected turn of events, he assists at a jail delivery by which his father and brother gain their freedom again. Of course it ends happily.”—Pub. Opin.
[*] “Is a thrilling drama-novel of the joyous old type of Dumas and Hope—and Crockett.”
| + | Lit. D. 31: 838. D. 2, ‘05. 470w. |
[*] “This romance is full of charm and vigor. The story shows the author at his best.”
| + + | Outlook. 81: 574. N. 4, ‘05. 60w. | |
| * | + | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 160w. |