Quayle, William Alfred.Prairie and the sea. *$2. Meth. bk.
“This is a series of pleasing out-of-door talks and rambles. The author, Mr. William A. Quayle, is always sympathetic in his moods, is an ardent worshiper at the shrine of nature, and is at times playful, at other times ecstatic. The book is made beautiful by a very large number of altogether charming photographs and marginal drawings.”—Outlook.
“His work belongs to the great average output of nature essays—not striking, but thoroughly readable on the whole, and, together with the accompanying pictures, making up an attractive volume.”
“It is not original and it is not all worthy, it is not all in the best taste—but there’s undoubtedly a charm about both pictures and text.”
Quick, Herbert.Double trouble; or, Every hero his own villain.†$1.50. Bobbs.
A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tale which substitutes hypnotic power for the potion of Stevenson’s story. Florian Amidon, an educated upright young banker, wakes up one morning to make the startling discovery that he has lost five years of his life to another personality—to Eugene Brassfield, of whom Amidon has not the slightest consciousness. The trouble for Amidon which grows out of the anything but irreproachable life of Brassfield furnishes the motif of the story, and introduces a series of novel situations.
“This novel has two legitimate claims to public interest. It is a pleasing love-story quite out of the ordinary beaten path of fiction, and it is a popular study of one of the latest assured results of modern psychology—the subliminal self or double personality.”
“The story, moreover has a crisp and animated style that adds greatly to the charm. We can assure the reader of this tale much satisfaction.” Wm. M. Payne.
“The tale moves with alacrity and is never dull.”
“A capital story of strange happenings most convincingly told.”
“A pervading sense of humor, reminiscent of Stockton, sheds an air of plausibility over the situation.”