Talk:Cruise of the Jasper B
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| Edition: | originally published in 1916 |
| Source: | Obtained from online transcription, fullbooks.com |
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[edit]The gutenberg version was aligned to an original page scan, the toplevel page was modified to include the title and contents page. 09:40, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
Reviews
[edit]The Bookman, June 1923: Fun, mystery, and romance mixed with militant feminism make a jolly cocktail of whimsicalities.
The Bookman, August 1916: (H. W. Boynton in "Some Stories of the Month"): If there is such a thing as summer reading,—and that is a question which, against all intentions, we are bound to discuss more or less gravely at this season,—it is not, I should guess (at the moment) the silly mush of other days, the "Duchess" kind of thing, but rather the story of mystery and adventure, with or without humour. The Cruise of the Jasper B. is a story of this kind, with a good deal of humour. The adventures of Cleggett have a delightfully Stockton flavour. After long service as a drudge in a newspaper office, Cleggett suddenly comes into a legacy of a half-million. He is not yet past his youth, and the world is all before him. He buys an old hulk which has long been stuck in the mud of a Long Island cove. His plan is to fit her out and sail whither he will in quest of adventure. But there turns out to be a proper mystery about the Jasper B. which presently involves Cleggett and his crew and various others in sufficiently thrilling adventures before they have had a chance to try their seamanship, and their luck at happenings, away from Long Island muck. The thing is done, I say, with a quaint yet unforced extravagance which reminds me of the Stockton touch—a later Rudder Grange, to make much of the analogy. If there is no Pomona here, there is an almost equally delightful Lady Agatha, with her tragic past and her unfailingly comic point of view.