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...Lord Edmund Troyte, will serve the average reader as an acceptably mild antidote for mental fatigue. The hero first tries to get the fishing rights of an Irish salmon-stream for his chief; then foils a deep, dark plot of some rascally picture-dealers to buy an unknown Gainsborough??? subject: Great Grandmother of the title?for a song from a ruined Irish squire. Sir Ames Coppinger, so the squire is called, has a barefoot daughter who provides what love entanglements are necessary. But nobody says " begorra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Books: May 28, 1923 | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

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