 Mr. Davis has vigorous ideals ; he is in love with strength and cleanness, with 'grit' and resource, with heroism and courage in men : with beauty and frankness, with freshness and youth in women ; and liking these qualities, he also likes writing about...  The Publishers Weekly - Page 3821897Full view - About this book
 | Frank R. Stockton - Literary Criticism - 1879 - 324 pages
...SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. Illustrated by Charles Davis Gibson. i:mo, $1.50. The London Academy says : " Mr. Davis has vigorous ideals ; he is in love with...qualities, he also likes writing about them. . . . Mr. Uavis has the dramatic gift— he carries you along with him. One need not wish for a better story... | |
 | Marion Harland - 1883 - 414 pages
...published ty CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS J53-J57 FIFTH AVFJMUE NEW YORK RICHARD HARDING DAVIS "Mr. Davis km Vigorous ideals } he is in love with strength and...One need not wish for a better story of action than the ' Soldiers of fortune.'" — London Academy. The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns Illustrated from... | |
 | Julia Magruder - American fiction - 1885 - 328 pages
...booksellers : published by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK RICHARD HARDING DAVIS "Mr. Davis has vigorous ideals; he is in love •with...dramatic gift — he carries you along with him. One ne;ti not wish for a better story of action than the 'Soldiers of Fortune.'" — London Academy. The... | |
 | Edith Carpenter - American fiction - 1896 - 376 pages
...SONS J53-I57 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK BOOKS BY RICHARD HARDING DAVIS "Mr. Davis has vigorous ideals; ht is in love with strength and cleanness, with ''grit'...One need not wish for a better story of action than the 'Soldiers of Fortune.'" — London Academy. The Cuban and Porto Rican Campaigns Illustrated from... | |
 | James Matthew Barrie - Fiction - 1896 - 528 pages
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 | Richard Harding Davis - American fiction - 1897 - 398 pages
...Davis has never imagined anything more dexterously than the conclusion." — Philadelphia Press. " Mr. Davis has vigorous ideals — he is in love with...in men ; with beauty and frankness, with freshness arid youth, in women ; and, liking these qualities, he also likes •writing about them. Hence, to... | |
 | Richard Harding Davis - Kings and rulers - 1898 - 214 pages
...dramatic scenes. SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE. Illustrated by CD Gibson. I2mo, $ 1.50. The London Academy says : " Mr. Davis has vigorous ideals; he is in love with...not wish for a better story of action than this." GALLEGHER, and Other Stories. Illustrated. I2mo, jS1.oo. CINDERELLA, and Other Stories. Illustrated.... | |
 | Richard Harding Davis - Santiago Campaign, 1898 - 1898 - 406 pages
...SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE CINDERELLA, AND OTHER STORIES STORIES FOR BOYS CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, PUBLISHERS " Mr. Davis has vigorous ideals — he is in love with...and youth, in women ; and, liking these qualities, be also likes writing about them. Hence, to those who are of Mr. Davis' s mind (as I am for one), Mr.... | |
 | Joseph Henry Pearce - 1898 - 360 pages
...journalist he know* what is interesting, as novelist he knows how to present it to best effect. Moreover, Mr. Davis has vigorous ideals— he is in love with...and frankness, with freshness and youth, in women. The principal characters in this book are so attractive that one parts from them with sorrow. Mr. Davis... | |
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