| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 699. N. 25, ‘05. 70w. |
Cullum, Ridgwell. [In the brooding wild.] [†]$1.50. Page.
“The tragedy of ‘The brooding wild’ consists in the enmity sown between two brothers, trappers of a straightforward primitive type, by a woman whom they believe to be a mysterious white squaw, queen of an Indian tribe. She is really a very ordinary half-breed conspiring with a rascally trader to rob the brothers.... The climax, in which a lunatic filled with the lust of slaughter breaks away into the wilderness, unfortunately passes the border-line of the grotesque.”—Sat. R.
“The human interest is subsidiary to the landscape. We wish the author had trusted for his effects to the realities of his mighty background, for his conspirators are made of pasteboard while his wolves and dogs and bears are of flesh and blood.”
| + — | Acad. 68: 736. Jl. 15, ‘05. 310w. |
“Unfortunately his ambition has outsailed his power of execution, and from unskilful treatment the story loses the interest promised at the outset.”
| — | Ath. 1905, 1: 619. My. 20. 300w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 457. Jl. 8, ‘05. 450w. |
“The story is told with fervor, with a rough, crude force.”
| + | Pub. Opin. 39: 221. Ag. 12, ‘05. 130w. |
“The book is garishly melodramatic.”