Word: cynthias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...THOUSAND AND FIRST NIGHT?Grant Overton?Doran ($2.00). A young aviator, Evan Lloyd, who drops out of the sky at sunset?Cynthia Fanning, who is taking care of her invalid grandfather, the ex-sea captain Magellan Fanning, in St. Martin's Manor, the home on the end of Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that...
...GARDEN OF PERIL?Cynthia Stockley?Putnam ($2.00). Peril is in this case the heroine. She is a heroine, too, of the old school, a back-to-nature heroine, against a background of curious African vegetation. Into Peril's Rhodesian garden come two swashbuckling gentlemen of fortune. Their names, respectively, are Punch Heseltine, Major of Mounted Police, and Pam Heseltine, his cousin. Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly...
...CHILD AT HOME-Lady Cynthia Asquith-Scribner...
...this quietly delightful volume Lady Cynthia Asquith, wife of a son of the Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith by his first marriage, discusses The Nursery, At Table, Visitors, Rending Aloud, Pets and the activities, pleasures, perils, fears, delights of childhood in general with certain interspersed reminiscences of her own childhood as charming as they are unsentimental and vivid. She dreaded having to ride the elephant in the Zoo-milk-pudding: she loathed, and still remembers with despair the would-be jocular visitors who greeted her with, "Shall I cut your curls off?" or " Are you jealous of your little brother...
...PONJOLA-Cynthia Stockley-Putnam ($2.00). Lady Flavia Desmond was Tired of It All. She was just about to make a hole in the Seine when she ran into Lundi Druro, a tall, bronzed personage, back from Africa on leave, whose tales of the native flora and fauna and remarks on What a Wonderful Thing True Love Was (he was then engaged to somebody else who ditched him later) made Flavia decide to dress up in masculine tweeds and take a look at this Earthly Paradise he talked about. She found the scenery marvelous, but everybody drank Scotch before breakfast...