Word: mauriers
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...MAURIER'S TRILBY gained a decided success and Sam. A. Beckhard's Trilby scarf, as worn by Trilby and the three "Musketeers of the Brush" is naturally all the go. See it at 70 Tremont street, Parker House...
...Trilby," said Mr. Copeland, is full of the charm of novelty. In it all conventionalities are thrown aside. Du Maurier defies in one half page all the rules of syntax and most of the rules of rhetoric. He does know of the periodic sentence. The book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work...
...Copeland then spoke of du Maurier's earlier work, Peter Ibbetson, which, he said, is a far more delicate book, in an artistic sense, than "Tribly." And it has the added advantage of keeping up the interest...
...talk was followed by reading from Homer, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and from George Du Maurier's "Trilby...
...Haven Union suggests that the first picture of Quip is in Du Maurier's style, and reminds one of the Venus of Milo...