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...FAIR-Michael Arlen-Doran. ($2.50). Now Dikran Kuyunijiao has written another book, which is the last that he will write about these charming people, they do say. He has a pretty way with words, this Michael, or this Dikran. If it is the same trick that the cavaliers of the 17th Century had with a lady's hand, and the dandies of the 18th with a silver perruque and a puffing neckcloth, that is because he stands, as they did, in defense of gallantry; and it is a proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world...
...young Armenian in his early days as a lonely essayist in London. We meet for the first time Shelmerdene, "that lovely lady." We find incorporated a first draft of the first story in These Charming People. We learn, in a gracefully whimsical introduction, how it was that Mr. Dikran Kuyumjian chanced to adopt the less complex and more indigenous cognomen under which he has become so pleasantly-and to himself, profitably-known. On the whole, The London Venture will be of some considerable interest to those who crave to know the man behind the pen-name, to those who eagerly...
...whose illicit suitor-were saved by the opportune appearance of a cigar with a long, undisturbed ash. The Romance of Iris Poole is the tale of Red Antony and his brother Roger, of the revenge of Antony upon Roger, whom he hated even as he admired him. Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian, Armenian) is reported...
Occasionally an author really shoots across the sky with all the brilliance and success of a comet. Such an author, it seems to me, is Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyunijian?American spelling). You may like his books?or they may annoy you. At least they are arresting; they have caused a sensation in England and are rapidly becoming the thing to talk of in America...