Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dial, Vol. 38: A Semi-Monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information; January 1 to June 16, 1905
Two novels of the Civil War demand a place in our present selection. Mr. Henry Kitchell Webster's 'traitor and Loyalist' is a straight forward story of blockade-running in the early days of the con?ict. The scene of operation is the course from Nassau to Wilmington, and the author has thoroughly informed himself upon the technical. Details of the trade. His hero is the captain of a merchantman who goes into the risky business because it is his father's business, because that father is a New York copperhead of rabid prejudices, and because the son, having been brought up to obey his father's orders, does no? Give much thought to the polit ical and patriotic considerations involv The heroine is the daughter of a secessionist leader of North Carolina, and it devolves upon the hero to take her as a passenger when he runs the blockade with his consignment of supplies. It is his love for her that eventually opens his eyes to the fact that he is betraying his country, and her trust in his essential integrity that leads him to give up his trade and give his services to the imperiled nation. This he is about to do when the story ends. The work is cleverly done upon conventional lines, and has both breeziness and vigor.
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