Self made, a lover of work for work’s sake, Josef Mayer, has at last achieved success and erected a saw-mill in the Polish Carpathians, having beggared Count Rutkowski and secured his timber lands in a shrewd business deal. Then comes a pretty romance between the count’s daughter and Meyer’s son, which is opposed more strenuously by the peasant than by the nobleman, but which ends satisfactorily in the loss of the Meyer fortune. Royalty, the village folk and the disaffected Jews figure in the story.
“There is also a certain delicacy in the treatment of the love scenes and fidelity to truth in the descriptions of natural scenery that give the story a charm not present in most present-day novels.”
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“There is, moreover, much skill displayed in the delineation of character and situations alike, and the writer is thoroughly familiar with her material.” Wm. M. Payne.
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“The story is told naturally and carefully.”
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“It is full of freshness and originality.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 10: 455. Jl. 8, ‘05. 480w. |
“A charming combination of capital and labor, with an absorbing love-plot, is ‘Sawdust’.”