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...While it is better late than never to confess having done an injury, it is impossible to overlook the fact that in Mr. Ford's case it it decidedly late."?New York Times...
Dapper and citified in spats and white piping on his vest, this elegant gentleman steps into the Overlook homestead and meets the missus. During the course of the conversation Overlook allows that despite his fifteen years in the city, he has always been a country lad at heart, whereas his visitor and his charming wife were born to the civilized life of cities. The latter looks at Mrs. Overlook with "a twist of hopeless longing in his eyes," and replies in a low voice. "I was born in a Iowa...
...title, "Immortal Longings," the reviewer fails to find the connection. Walter Overlook has a very natural longing for the lady of his choice, whom he looks upon rather indelicately as "a piece of fallow and unseeded ground that lies steaming and smoking in the sun." There seem to be no other longings...
...finally to owner of the great circus that now bears his name, Barnum was a Yankee, a Connecticut Yankee, to be exact, and many are the tales, of business deals that smack of the wisdom of the Nutmeg state. The reader need have no fear that he may overlook these bits of David Harum, for they are advertised, in true Barnum style, for several pages before and after the transaction...
...whole book is a grand parade, with banners flapping, barkers barking, and calliopes screeching, and the heroic portrait of Barnum ever in the background. If one can overlook this, which does grow distasteful after a time, he will find much that is entertaining, and much that is instructive in the art of kidding the public with pleasure and profit...