Word: raconteuring
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...readable it surely is, written in the style of an experienced raconteur, whose general appreciation and knowledge of American sporting life is seasoned with a personal acquaintance with all of his characters. The booklet is amply interspersed with characteristic snapshots which all bear appropriately familiar captions, and the insertion of some of the remarks of the celebrated wits of which the 1919 University team boasted livens the narrative throughout and gives one an idea of the type of man of which this fighting aggregation was composed...
...most meritorious articles are the two stories, "A Mutual Fraud" and "After Twenty Years." The former is a clever tale of the trouble-beset course of true love, the love of one Alphonse for his Henrietta. The raconteur is a charming little blackeyed French woman with a penchant for English slang and flirting-and the result is a delicate piquancy and delightful vivaciousness of style which is seldom characteristic of Advocate stories. There are one or two slight errors in the use of words, but the plot is original, and the story, on the whole, is very creditable...