SOURCE: A review of Samuel Drummond, in Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol 170. June 16, 1926, p. 647-48.

In the following review, the critic praises Boyd's realism in Samuel Drummond.

If Mr. Thomas Boyd has already written other books I do not know them. If he should write others in the future I shall certainly read them. For Samuel Drummond is a satisfying book, unexciting, but as nourishing to the mind as the kindly fruits of the earth are to the body. Its scene is Ohio before, during and after the Civil War; its theme the simple annals of a farmer's life. When we first meet Samuel he is a boy working on his father's farm. But soon Marthy Jane, a poor relation of his mother's, golden of hair and blue of eye, comes on the scene, and after a brief rivalry with his brother, who is as gay and...