“Deliberately uses such talent as he has to arouse the worst passions in his readers. There is less vulgarity in the story than might be expected, but restraint has not yet done its full work. The best men, both North and South, will turn from this repellant portrayal of our country and our countrymen.”
| — — + | Outlook. 79: 348. F. 4, ‘05. 230w. |
“The dramatic intensity, the color, the incisiveness of Mr. Dixon’s style. It is in the expression of personal opinion, and the characterization of individuals that the strong partisan bias of the book is most plain. Three-fourths of the book are given up to the epoch-making events and radical legislation, that prepared the way for the Ku Klux Klan. ‘The clansman’ consists of a bitter arraignment of Thaddeus Stevens, some vivid portrayals of great scenes, some impassioned pleading, and a modicum of fiction. As a novel it may reinforce, but it will not displace the more artistic presentment of the reconstruction period that another Southerner has given us in ‘Red rock.’”
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| + + | R. of Rs. 31: 508. Ap. ‘05. 160w. |
“Mr. Dixon ... is so impressed with the tremendous interest of his country’s history that he has lost his sense of perspective.”
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Dixon, Thomas, jr. Life worth living. [**]$1.20. Doubleday.
This group of essays and papers sets forth the beauties of nature and the joys of country life. The opening chapter, Dreams and disillusions shows the “horrors of city life”; there are other chapters upon such subjects as—The music of the seasons, The fellowship of dogs, Some sins of nature, The shouts of children, In the haunts of wild fowl, and What is life?
Reviewed by G. W. Adams.
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| — | Ind. 58: 1422. Je. 22, ‘05. 150w. |