Books with author Roy J. Snell

Part of a series by Roy Snell who was very prolific with "mystery stories for boys and girls" meaning young teens. This is a direct quote from the book jacket and says, "If you know Johnny Thompson, you know he never goes anywhere with out meeting adventure. In the Arrow of fire he comes back to his native city and is swept up in a dangerous conflict with a desperate gang of criminals. He and his new friend, Drew Lane, a young detective, decide to bring the criminals to justice. The action moves breathlessly through dark streets, police courts, and the sinister maze of the city's underworld. This story besides being one of the most thrilling of the Roy Snell's stories, carries the added fascination of episodes in which the latest scientific developments are used for purposes of tracing crime. It is decidedly a book for the boy and girl of today who loves a clear cut, flashing tale in which victory is for the fearless and the just stories. " That gives you good feel for the style in which it is written. Campy and fun.

"...her eyes fell on that blue envelope. Instantly a flood of remembrance rushed through her mind; the frank-faced college boy, the angry miner, old Rover, the dog, who, sleek and fat on whale meat, lay curled up beside her, then again the grizzled face of the miner framed in a port-hole; all these passed before her mind's vision and left her chilled."

Our brief sketch of Garibaldi and his comrades has been based, as far as possible on G. M. Trevelyan's notable trilogy—Garibaldi and the defense of Rome, Garibaldi and teh Thousand, and Garibaldi and the Making of Italy. Mr. Trevelyan's very full and highly picturesque narratives do not take in, or only cursorily, the later phases of his hero's career, in with Garibaldi appears to less advantage. Here we have been compelled to fall back on Garibaldi's autobiography, which as been satisfactorily translated by Mr. A. Werner, supplemented by Signora Mario's recital.A legend which seems impossible but has nevertheless gained acceptance in some quarters represents Garibaldi as having been killed at Aspromonte, when a 'double' named Sganerelli, a stevedore of Genoa, was substituted for him by the chiefs of the party for political reasons. The supposed fraud has been put forward as an explanation for the Liberator's failures after 1862. The theory is not only unnecessary, but even preposterous. " 'Tis not in mortals to command success," and as it was Garibaldi's uniform experience to strive against heavy odds, it should excite no surprise that sometimes his military genius was beaten by circumstances. What is really surprising is that a man untrained in the arts of war should have accomplished such signal results, at any period of life, with such cruelly inadequate means.

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