Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities of "lawyer, soldier, business man, novelist, historian, essayist, poet, and member of the parliament." At any rate, it is reasonable to infer that Mr. Buchan is an intelligent man of considerable good taste, shrewdness, and literary ability. In "The Half-Hearted", there is nothing to make the reader believe the contrary...
...Mazarini "the snake replaces the eagle" is on hand to put obstacles in the way of redoubtable Gascon gentlemen. The three original musketeers are missing but the loss is slight when their places are taken by Cyrano de Bergerac and the young Chevalier Tancrede, whose antecedents will surprise the reader, but whose identity, like the plot of detective plays, is not to be divulged by the reviewer...
...Author's Note to THE MURDER AT FLEET (J. P. Lippincott Company, 1928. $2.00.) Eric Brett Young tells the reader that there is not a word of truth in his whole novel. Not that the reader would for very long be kept in doubt because whatever merits this detective tale night possess plausibility is not one of them. Still it compensates for its lack of realism by a surplus of mystery and melodrama. A scarecrow plays a major part in the plot. Every elue in the murder led to a blank wall until Detective Faucet spied the blood...
...attributes of literature is to give pleasure to the reader--and from much recent writing this might be doubted--then certainly few writers have achieved, in the Vagabond's opinion, a greater right to be called preeminent at least in this department than Mark Twain. From the time he was first able to read, the Vagabond has chuckled, laughed and even been most undignifiedly convulsed by the inimitable stories and essays of this little man with the bushy white hair and fierce moustaches...
...omnivorous reader and TIME has made it unnecessary to wade through masses of dribble and drivel to get at a few intelligently expressed facts. I now have the time to devote to other worthwhile reading and yet be fully in formed as to current events. I would like to see your Music department enlarged and amplified, but then we all have our pet obsessions. WALLER CROW Dittlinger-Crow Process Co., New Braunfels...