Word: reader
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there are always evils to meet on any highway, especially a Jeffrey Farnol highway. Yet Jeremy has the light of dauntlessness in his eyes-and he loves a lady-two inimitable means of success in novels-or even in life. So it is a victorious Jeremy who faces the reader as the book ends, an impossibly epic Jeremy-and a delightfully epic...
...Africa hunting pterodactyls. He encounters something big and snaky that might as well be a pterodactyl as anything else and shoots it, whereupon it sinks to the bottom of the river. Uncle Bliss catches malaria and goes home without it to England. He doesn't even die, after the reader is expecting it impatiently, so that the nice English family in the story can solve their financial difficulties with his money. And the head of the nice family, after refusing to be Uncle Bliss' English agent (for he is Anglo-Saxon and independent) comes home from France with the family...
...charming, even though they flit in and out of the plot without rhyme or reason. They live in nice places, picnic and go trout-fishing whether at home or in the Pyrenees for financial reasons, have their jokes and family catch-words in a delightful idyllic existence. If a reader is reconciled to a purposeless book that smells of what the English country life should be (and the combination has refreshing elements) the flavor of "The Dinosaur's Egg" is sufficiently delicate to make one wish that such eggs were a staple commodity on the market...
...Report'; the second, also neat, and more difficult in theme, is "Musk and Melons." The conception, in both cases, is generous and sentimental, but is worked out with restraint of form. Concision, too, marks the interesting lines entitled "Abnegation"; and, still more, those on "Bereavement," which strike the present reader's ear as the best thing in the number. They are only eight lines, and it would be hardly fair to quote them. Among the business-like book reviews may be single out, perhaps, that on the "Papers" of Colonel House. It is very well balanced
...this eating before mass some innovation in Catholic observance? Was so high a prelate as the Archbishop subtly establishing a new custom? Silly idea! The esteemed Free Press, under normal newspaper pressure, which is inconceivable to the uninitiated, had made an error, an error easily forgivable when the reader reflected...