DOCTOR NYE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18571, 1 December 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)

DOCTOR NYE.

' A NEW " LINCOLN » BOOK. The hero of this book is Ephraim Nye M.D The book is written by .Joseph Lincoln. Given these two facts, it should not be difficult to guess the rest. Do you cal'late that it is the story of a 100 per cent. American who conceals, beneath a shabby coat and a shady past, a chivalry which makes Galahad look like two cents? Then you're plum right. m Do you, having regard to the M.D, surmise that he labours for love among the poor'and needy/performs upon them marvels of surgical and medical skill, and finally copes, single-handed, with a typhoid epidemic? . \ Sure, he docs; and in his off hours reclaims drunkards, unites young lovers, reconciles old enemies and finally after a slight misunderstanding with his own true love, which involves them both in an unhappy, but fortunately brief, period of matrimony with another, leads her in triumph to his humble cottage, there to live happy ever after in the shadow of a crime whichhe never committed. / Mark Sabre is the only English novel hero I can recall who could stand up to " Eph " in a- contest of sentimental chivalry. The humour of the book is breezy, if not over-subtle, and altogether, for those who like that kind of thins, well, this is just the kind of thing they'll like.