Talk:A Son of the People

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Bookman March 1906: In this romance of the Hungarian plains the Baroness Orczy writes with ease and grace, and her peasant characters are no mere pasteboard figures. They are charged with life. Most important of them is one Andras, "a son of the soil," the son of a small tenant farmer in the domain of the "big man" of the neighbourhood. The "big man" falls into financial difficulties, and Andras, aided by cash left to him by a miser father, comes to the rescue, claiming as his reward the hand of the "big man's" daughter. He marries the lady, *but they have a "scene" on the marriage day, and separate (at the end of Part II.), to be reconciled in the last chapter. From the "scene" to the close the Baroness keeps the story going with much verve, and the pride of the peasant and the pride of the " big man " are set forth with much vigour in a book that is vivid, but by no means sensational. It is a work quite worthy of the author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "By the Gods Beloved."