A simple but powerful story of farm life in the great West, which
cannot fail to make a lasting impression on every reader. In this
book Mr. Harris has done for the wheat fields what Mr. Westcott has
done for rural New York and Mr. Bacheller for the North country. It
is in no way imitative of _David Harum_ or _Eben Holden_; and, unlike
each of these books, it is not in the portrayal of a single quaint
character that its power consists. Mr. Harris has taken for his story
a typical Iowa farmer's family and their neighbours; and, although
every one of the characters is realistically portrayed, the sense of
proportion is never lost sight of, and the result is a picture of real
life, artistic in the highest sense, as being true to nature. It is
a wholesome story, full of the real heroism of homely life, a book
to make the reader better by strengthening his belief in the truth
of self-sacrifice and the survival of sturdy American character.
A Remarkable Study of Social Life in America.
DIFFERENCES
BY HERVEY WHITE.