A Yankee Volunteer
A Yankee Volunteer
By M. IMLAY TAYLOR
12mo. 383 pages. Price, $1.25
A painstaking chronicle of the principal incidents in the sanguinary struggle between Great Britain and her North American Colonies.... There is not a dull page in this excellent historical romance.—Daily Telegraph, London, Eng.It is a far cry from Russia to the United States, yet Mary Imlay Taylor, who has written some most interesting stories of intrigue and fighting at St. Petersburg, shows in her latest romance, “A Yankee Volunteer,” that she is quite as much at home in America as in the Czar’s country. Her new book has for historic background the events of the first half of the Revolutionary War, and it tells a love story which is charming and quite a part of the stern adventures that make a hero.—Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia.It is a good story—this of the Yankee rebel—“so gallant in love and so dauntless in war,” and of the sweet Royalist who at last became a “rebel” for love of him.—Living Church, Chicago.“A Yankee Volunteer” is indeed a story fraught with such exquisite beauty as is seldom associated with history.—Boston Times.The story is beautifully written, and moves with the dignity and quaintness inseparable from the successful historical novel.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.A fascinating picture of the royalist and patriot social elements of revolutionary days.—Boston Globe.
A painstaking chronicle of the principal incidents in the sanguinary struggle between Great Britain and her North American Colonies.... There is not a dull page in this excellent historical romance.—Daily Telegraph, London, Eng.
It is a far cry from Russia to the United States, yet Mary Imlay Taylor, who has written some most interesting stories of intrigue and fighting at St. Petersburg, shows in her latest romance, “A Yankee Volunteer,” that she is quite as much at home in America as in the Czar’s country. Her new book has for historic background the events of the first half of the Revolutionary War, and it tells a love story which is charming and quite a part of the stern adventures that make a hero.—Evening Bulletin, Philadelphia.
It is a good story—this of the Yankee rebel—“so gallant in love and so dauntless in war,” and of the sweet Royalist who at last became a “rebel” for love of him.—Living Church, Chicago.
“A Yankee Volunteer” is indeed a story fraught with such exquisite beauty as is seldom associated with history.—Boston Times.
The story is beautifully written, and moves with the dignity and quaintness inseparable from the successful historical novel.—St. Paul Pioneer Press.
A fascinating picture of the royalist and patriot social elements of revolutionary days.—Boston Globe.
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