From the True Wesleyan.
“This
is a volume of 204 pages, handsomely printed on good paper and well bound. But it is not in the
execution that the interest lies; it is in the thrilling incidents so well told. We have never been a
great reader of novels, as all must know by
our style of writing, yet we have read enough to know the almost resistless power which a
well-executed tale, when once we commence reading, exerts over the mind, until we reach the
end; and did we not know the author, and know from the best of proof that
the book is a true narrative, on reading it we should pronounce it a novel. The reader may rely
upon its truth, and yet he will find it so full of touching incidents, daring adventures, and
hair-breadth escapes, that he will find his attention held spell-bound,
from the time he begins until he has finished the little volume. We think the work cannot fail to
meet with an extensive sale.”
