Jus Majesty's Yankees
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DOUBLEDAY, DORAN
MR. RADDAALL’S chronicle of Nova Scotia in 17741777 has the same advantage over the common run of historical novels that Cooper’s Pioneers had over his Prairie: that is, it is an outgrowth of prolonged familiarity with a region and of intense affection for it. The story told is probably new to fiction. It is the story of the events that brought Nova Scotia within an eyelash of adding a fourteenth stripe to the United States flag — a consummation thwarted partly by failure of the abortive expedition against Fort Cumberland, partly by the shameful abuses committed by the uncontrolled New England privateers, and partly by the farsighted political skill of such adoptive Nova Scotians as Michael Francklin. A lively tale well told, it is as exciting to Yankee readers as to any. But what makes the generous measure of fiction and history run over is the added element of pure lyricism, omnipresent in the form of the Nova Scotian landscape, its woods and weathers and tides and seasons, its smells and bird song. Mr. Raddall’s pages give us the next best thing to a four-season residence somewhere between Halifax and Fundy, and some of them are so beautifully written that they will make many a reader homesick for a seaboard upon which he has never set foot. w. F.
W. H. C. WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN
W. F. WILSON FOLLETT
R. M. G. ROBERT M. GAY
F. W. N. FRED W. NEAL
W. S. WALLACE STEGNER