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II. THE NOVEL
Kenneth Roberts has specialized in the unprofessional and unconventional wars of early North America. The first book of Northwest Passage presents the epic march of Rogers' Rangers from Crown Point to the Indian town of St. Francis in Canada and their return directly south to the intervales of the Connecticut. As this expedition extended from September 13, 1759, to October 31 of the same year, it covers only a very small period of the French and Indian War. However, its military importance was great. From this little Indian town yearly came those horrible attacks upon the New England settlers when so many defenseless farmers and their families were killed or captured. This victory opened the entire interior of New England and promised safety to the
pioneers who settled in the rich valleys.
Northwest Passage is much more than a dramatic episode, for its central figure is one of the great men of romance. An heroic character, sometimes comic, but more usually tragic, he dominates the book. In this first book we see only his finest qualities, it remains for the latter part to show his gradual disintegration when his magnificent idea of a Northwest Passage leads to his defeat. Deserted by his own government, his project ruined by jealous rivals, he is beaten in the end, butonly by himself.
Mr. Roberts has succeeded where so many American writers of historical novels have failed, for he has more freshness and real humanity in his major characters than most chroniclers. Through his fine assortment of types among his