The Last Spike Part 21

THE EXPRESS MESSENGER

_And Other Tales of the Rail_

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

BOSTON TRANSCRIPT

The author's work is familiarly and pleasantly known to magazine readers for the realistic details of Western railroad life, which give them a das.h.i.+ng, vital movement, though they are often highly romantic. The romantic in them, however, seems very human--indeed, there is a ring of true feeling in these little tales.

BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE

Mr. Warman's work has about it the merit of a genuine realism, and it is as full of romance and adventure as the most exacting reader could desire. It is a volume of sketches that is well worth reading, not only because they are well written and full of action, but for the pictures they give of a life that the world really knows very little about.

PHILADELPHIA PRESS

The poet appears in the descriptive pa.s.sages, and there is a melodious rhythm to his prose style that is pleasurable in a high degree. Mr.

Warman has a field of his own, and he is master of it.

FRONTIER STORIES

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

REVIEW OF REVIEWS

n.o.body knows his frontier life better than Mr. Warman, and his yarns of Indians, striking miners, cowboys, half-breeds, and railroad men, are full of vivid reality. There is plenty of romance and excitement in this score of stories.

THE CHURCHMAN

Eighteen tales which certainly are excellent in their kind, quick, breezy, full of the local color, yet with delightful touches of universal humanity.

CINCINNATI COMMERCIAL TRIBUNE

They are honest little chapters of life simply written, an effective word of slang stuck in here and there where it does not seem at all out of place; honest, open-hearted, steady-eyed narratives all, with the breeze of the Western prairies in every line, as well as the brotherhood of man, and his triumphs and his failures impressing themselves upon you at every turn.

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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