The Trail of the Hawk, by Sinclair Lewis, is the chronicle of an
inveterate Rolling Stone Carl Ericson, a born rebel against
conventions, finds himself from boyhood up at war with the combined
forces of family, school and society, all three of which unite in
trying to mould him into the average colourless human being.
Consequently throughout his earlier years he is in perpetual
disgrace, at home, at school and at college Thus it happens that we
find Carl in early adolescence a friendless and penniless wanderer,
undaunted and thrilling with a sense of freedom and the boundless
opportunity of satisfying his unquenchable curiosity about life.
The first of the three parts into which this chronicle is divided,
"The Adventure of Youth," covers the formative years and helps to
explain why Carl is what he is, and not otherwise. Part II, "The
Adventure of Adventuring," is an undiluted joy. It is improbable,
to be sure, almost burlesque, yet so joyous, so spontaneous, so
kaleidoscopic in its varied scene and shifting action, that one
must accept it with indulgent credulity. Packer in a department
store, waiter in a third-class restaurant, mechanic in an
automobile factory, chauffeur, professional tramp and candidate for
the bread line, porter in a Bowery saloon, facing the problem of
saving four dollars out of a weekly salary of eight, in order to
gratify a new ambition, namely to see the Panama Canal, such is a
brief epitome of one phase of our Rolling Stone's career, a phase
that all unconsciously is shaping him for bigger things. and the
following year finds him in California, a partner in a profitable
automobile repair shop. Then the big news reaches him of the first
successful flights of Curtis and the Wright Brothers, and Carl
recognises by instinct that here is the outlet for his pent-up
energies, the one career for which his whole undisciplined nature
has been crying out. Much has been written about aviation, both
from the technical and the popular standpoint; but it would be hard
to find anywhere else in fiction any description that would give to
the inexperienced a kindred thrill of breathless flight, of danger
that is a fearful joy, and of confident omnipotence that is
superhuman. And then, when this unrivalled "Hawk of the Air-men" is
at the zenith of his powers, comes his third adventure, "The
Adventure of Love." Of course, the inevitable happens: the Hawk has
his wings clipped, flights are a thing of the past, a onfining,
although lucrative office position and a conventional apartment on
the Upper West Side begin to prey upon his nerves; and soon the
happy couple are quarrelling acrimoniously and often. But you
cannot cage a hawk for long (Frederic Taber Cooper) --- The Trail
of the Hawk is a truly lifelike chronicle of the fortunes of 'Widow
Ericson's boy Carl, ' of Joralemon, Minn., who becomes 'Hawk'
Ericson, the daring aviator, and marries a very nice girl indeed.
They had promised to find new horizons for each other, and when the
resources of a New York flat in the way of horizons are exhausted,
they sail for South America (Atlantic Monthly)
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