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...surprised by the Senate's failure was Judge John E. Mack, conducting a utilities investigation for the New York Legislature. For six months Judge Mack has been trying, with a notable lack of success, to find Mr. Hopson. At Albany last week he quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel on Runaway Hopson: They seek him here, they seek him there...
...heaven? Is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel! Smiled Judge Mack: "The Scarlet Pimpernel hasn't a damned thing on Hopson...
...UNCROWNED KING ? Baroness Orczy ? Putnam ($2). Expert historical romance by the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, dealing with a supposed career of the lost Dauphin...
...LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL-John Blakeney (with a foreword by the Baroness Orczy)-Washburn ($2.50). In the form of a full-dress biography, Author Blakeney tells all that is left to tell about the Scarlet Pimpernel...
Even more incredible than this story, however, is the portrait of the Scarlet Pimpernel as a boy of eleven years old, "from a contemporary silver point drawing." With an air of the greatest insouciance young Percy stands in his tailcoat, ruff, and knee breeches, his left hand daintily grasping the well known handkerchief, his right elevating some sort of lorgnette or bauble which is not clearly distinguishable, and looking for all the world exactly as he did at twenty and at thirty and at forty...