| — + | Lit. D. 31: 666. N. 4, ‘05. 620w. |
“Its unique plot, its life-like characters, its brilliant execution in both dialogue and movement, are all crowned by a novel’s raison d’etre—its absorbing interest.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 542. Ag. 19, ‘05. 1260w. |
Gordon, Armistead C. Gift of the morning star. $1.50. Funk.
“He that overcometh ... I will give him the morning star.” The blood of a French mother flowing warm in the veins of her Dunker son sends him out in the world at the age of forty to seek his fortune, his whole being crying out against the repressed life of silent labor on the farm with which his older brother and sister are content. He wins his fortune as a boomer, he loses it in a single night, and in the end comes home again self conquered and content with his Dunker life and his Dunker sweetheart.
“Mr. Gordon has made his book of somewhat incongruous material.”
| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 450. Jl. 8, ‘05. 550w. |
“A truly original story of Dunkard character. His pictures have all the vividness of reality.”
| + — | Outlook. 80: 192. My. 20, ‘05. 100w. |
“A forcible and an original tale.”