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...Irvin S. Cobb* there...
...said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them out of the Gopher (Wyo.) Elite Drug Store or Brentano...
...publisher's spring lists contain many a standard commodity. Mr. E. Phillips Oppenheim's vast museum now includes The Golden Beast (Little, Brown). Miss Ethel M. Dell submits A Man Under Authority (Putnam). Harvey O'Higgins has a successor to Julie Cane in Clara Barron (Harpers). Irvin Cobb's new tales, more pensive than usual, are all On an Island That Cost $24 (Doran). Katharine Haviland Taylor is out again, with Stanley Johns' Wife (Doran), and Albert Payson Terhune with Treasure (Harpers...
HERE COMES THE BRIDE-Irvin S. Cobb-Doran ($2.00). With the air of a man rolling a cigar in his mouth, savoring it, puffing, chewing the butt, spurting forth smooth smoke-curls and rich juices as the philosophical fruits of his rumination, Humorist Cobb drawls on and on about intoxicants, ancestors, being homely, the zoo, national holidays, Christmas presents "and so forth." Very different from "chewing the rag." He is the delight of a vast audience that relishes: an elaborate Southern simile- (false teeth that clattered) "like a fox-trotting horse with a loose shoe crossing a covered bridge...
...Irvin S. Cobb, Standing Room Only. Editor Ray Long. Cosmopolitan...