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...Authors. Joseph P. Marquand fellow-townsman of Lord Timothy Dexter, took rank in U. S. letters with Black Cargo, a well-told tale of the slave trade. His present work, eked from scanty material, suffers slightly from padding but maintains a sardonic flavor well suited to the subject...
...BLACK CARGO-John P. Marquand-Scribner...
...Marquand Gives...
...orderly citizen of 1825 - are familiar enough to all modern worthies who do any reading. They undergo, in this volume, a fastidious renaissance. Unlike many writers of "period" fiction, whose attitude to ward their material is merely that of a theatrical customer toward sale able properties, Mr. Marquand is workmanlike; he has made an at tempt to catch the temper of the proud and hazardous times of bad Eliphalet. His novel is too neat in pattern, too nervous in action, to find a place in the three-masted, damn-your-eyes tradition of sea-fiction which Captain Marryat, Cooper, Melville...
Died. Prof. Allan Marquand, 70, famed archeologist; in Manhattan. To artistic scholarship he gave his person and his purse, organizing the art department of Princeton University, which department he headed for 45 years. His private art library, said to be the finest in the country, he gave to the University...