A brief biography compiled mainly from original sources and intended by the author as a dispassionate study. It is a history of the career of Douglas rather than an intimate life story. A detailed account of his work presents him as lawyer, judge, and politician, but while what the man has done is faithfully given there is little of the man himself. The author announces in his preface that he has “not attempted to pronounce judgment on Douglas and his contemporaries but to submit the evidence,” this and this only has he done. The volume has no index.
[*] “Mr. Gardner has done something toward solving the Douglas riddle.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 891. D. 16, ‘05. 460w. |
Garis, Howard R. Isle of black fire. $1.50. Lippincott.
This is a boy’s book of adventure. A New York merchant sends out an expedition to an uncharted island where a great lump of radium supposedly worth fifty-five million dollars, is guarded by priests in asbestos robes, who worship it and offer up passing strangers in sacrifice to the “black fire.” There are stirring scenes in which two thousand savages are mowed down by the ship’s guns, and barbaric games and combats, which celebrate the coming of an office boy, George the Fat, as king of the savage kingdom. A comic Irishman relieves the tense situations.
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 69. F. 4, ‘05. 310w. (Gives plot.) |
Garland, Hamlin. [Tyranny of the dark.] [†]$1.50. Harper.
A western girl, beautiful and endowed with uncanny psychic powers, struggles between love and hypnotism; the first, represented by a young chemist and biologist, the second, by a clergyman. The story passes thru death and excitement to a happy ending.
“Pleasing and interesting as is the romance considered merely as a novel, its supreme excellence lies in its detailed presentation of certain psychical phenomena.”
| + + | Arena. 34: 206. Ag. ‘05. 8100w. |