Word: barre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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OLIVER OCTOBER?George Barr McCutcheon?Dodd Mead ($2.00). Oliver October Baxter had his fortune told by a gipsy the day he was born. She promised him all the court-cards in old Miss Lachesis' desk?but said he would be hung before he was 30. The prophecy was fulfilled, and the ingenious manner of its working out forms the theme of a typical McCutcheon thriller...
...supporters. The most conspicuous is Sir James Barr, consulting physician of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary and former Vice President of the British Medical Association, who has the Abrams machines, and lauds Abrams' achievements. In the U. S., Pearson's Magazine, sensational radical organ, espoused his cause, and published long supplements on Abrams. Upton Sinclair, the fighting Socialist pamphleteer and health apostle, has spent some time in Abrams' laboratory, and is sincerely convinced of his scientific genius and humanitarianism. But he is hardly a competent judge of cures...
...interesting to see together three of the gayest spinners of romantic yarns. Lloyd Osborne, the son-in-law and collaborator of Robert Louis Stevenson, florid, tall, grey; George Barr McCutcheon, always jovial and kindly; Farnol, shorter than either of them, quite unimpressive until he bubbles over with some sudden enthusiasm for an anecdote...
...down from the shelves. As a matter of fact, I have been reading Midwinter, by John Buchan. What a rollicking tale! Of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Brobdingnagian Dr. Sam Johnson. But I have never met John Buchan. Who is there in America who can spin such a romance? George Barr Mc-Cutcheon? Robert W. Chambers? John Marquand? Some day when Stephen Vincent Benét turns his hand to romancing, perhaps he will...
...with Valentin-and oh gosh, but life was complicated in Neuberg! But if you like imaginary countries- and secret passages-and duels-and hasty rides through the night-and all the grand old blood-and-thunder- here's by far the best romance of the Anthony-Hope-George-Barr- McCutcheon stripe that has appeared for lo, these many long years...