Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commerce and the National Domain 1783 1787," Professor Boyd, New Lecture Hall...
...Articles of Confederation", Professor Boyd, Sever...
MARCHING ON?James Boyd? Scribner's ($2.50). Jimmy Eraser, son of a Georgia landowner and grandson of the hero of Author Boyd's loud-beaten Drums, hears tales from his uncle of the past glory of their clan. He sees one day the enameled fields and the mansions of Cape Fear, where rich planters raise rice. He goes home unable to forget the beauty of opulent places, still less able to forget the hushed charm of a girl's voice. He falls in love with Stewart Prevost before he sees her. When friendship prompts her to offer him some money...
...Author Boyd has been at pains to produce correct atmosphere by inserting many anecdotes, invented or culled from the pages of musty newspapers. His pains are apparent. In minor characters, in tumble-down witticisms, he never relaxes his tenacious insistence on bare, unpolished prose. Judiciously he inserts pathos, romance, irony, etc. All the qualities present in Drums are more than ever present in Marching On. Drums was a moving, methodical, historical fiction; this is a better...
...Yankee Clipper (William Boyd, Elinor Fair) centres on a race from Foo Chow to Boston between a U. S. and a British ship to win the tea trade. A British lass, the fiancee of a dastardly lord, falls in love with a U. S. tar. Picturesque costumes, plenty of spray and salty subtitles such as "Better luff your needle to port," and "Set the weather stun sails" set the atmospherics flying...