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Word: gumbril (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrations. The book is almost worth owning for Henry Lamb's remarkable portrait of Strachey. On the other hand, there is much unaccountable carelessness in the text; the name of the pilgrim ship in "Lord Jim" is the "Patna," not the "Patria;" the protagonist of "Antic Hay" is Gumbril, not Gombauld; D. H. Lawrence died and was buried at Vence, in the South of France, not at Venice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 2/6/1936 | See Source »

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