David Dunne

The pulsating strength of ambition, tempered by the witchery of love, marks this story of the advancement of a wide-awake, big-hearted young farmhand to the high post of governor of a great state. Rural simplicity and impotence are metamorphosed into power by the magic of the opportunities offered by life in a great city. The sweetest and tenderest of love stories adds to the charm of the book, for the delicate child to whom the farmer boy tells fairy tales to calm her "fraidments" never outgrows the love she early bestows upon him, and in the homely phraseology of the lad's benefactor, Farmer Brumble to the end is "Dave's little gal."