Amazon.com description: Product Description: ONE may foretell with comparative certainty the character of this novel by Hamlin Garland. It is be “Western” in a sense that many of the writers of wild West stories cannot attain because of their lack of the long knowledge which are Garland’s surest asset and also his snare. He makes no mistakes in some things. He is not likely to mix the dialects of New England and New York with the Western vernacular; a canon or a mesa will be properly set in his pages, and bits of description will be not only accurate, but exquisite.

It has seemed sometimes that many authors cannot draw a 'gentleman.' But in "Money Magic," Garland has achieved a better hero than ever before. Mart Haney, ex-gambler. and saloonkeeper, suddenly rich, but keeping his head and singularly free from the offensiveness of the usual type of newly rich, is a gentleman; as fine as the frank, boyish and unspoiled girl whom he lifts from the ghastly and sordid poverty Garland is so fond of depicting into a life of ease and luxury made possible by the magic of great wealth.