"The best one may hear of 'The Spoilsmen' will be none too good. As a
wide-awake, snappy, brilliant political story it has few equals, its
title-page being stamped with that elusive mark, 'success.' One should
not miss a word of a book like this at a time like this and in a world
of politics like this."--_Boston Transcript_.
"Elliott Flower, whose 'Policeman Flynn' attested his acquaintance with
certain characteristic aspects of the American city, has written a novel
of municipal politics, which should interest many readers.... The
characters are obviously suggested by certain actual figures in local
politics, and while the conditions he depicts are general in large
cities in the United States, they will be unusually familiar to local
readers.... Ned Bell, the 'Old Man,' or political boss; Billy Ryan, his
lieutenant; 'Rainbow John,' the alderman, are likely to be
identified.... and other personages of the story are traceable to their
prototypes."--_Chicago Evening Post_.
*Stephen Holton.* By CHARLES FELTON PIDGIN, author of "Quincy Adams
Sawyer," "Blennerhassett," etc. The frontispiece is a portrait of the
hero by Frank T. Merrill.