Word: rovere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Master Gunner Peyrol, old Brother of the Coast, white-haired rover of the outer seas, returned to Toulon some years, before Trafalgar with a hoard of gold mohurs, ducats, guineas stowed away in a canvas jacket next his skin and a case of razors looted from an English prize, intending to spend his last days near the village where he was born, the village he had not seen for 50 years. He found lodging at the Escampobar farm-lodging and the strangest adventure of his life...
Though it is undoubtedly unwise to try to make any prophecies as to 100,000-sellers for the Fall, it is sane enough perhaps to attempt to point the modest finger of discrimination at some few novels which seem worth recommending to the judicious reader, sight unseen. Imprimis, The Rover, by Conrad. And The Blind Bow-Boy which Carl Van Vechten, its author, describes as " a cartoon for a stained glass window," whatever that means. Jennifer Larne, a sedate extravaganza by Elinor Wylie. And the new Hergesheimer if it's the one we think it is. Meanwhile, the literary roulette...
...your boy really likes to read, out of all the world's literature, unless he's a prodigy, and what you liked to read when you were his age. Imagine a family library without at least one volume containing the glorious words "A cooky-prize," cried Dick Rover, "for whoever first sights the old school...
...Author. Arthur M. Winfield (Edward Stratemeyer) is one of the most prolific and popular writers of boys' books in the world. Besides the Rover Boys Series he is also the author of the Putnam Hall Stories...
...ROVER BOYS AT BIG BEAR LAKE Arthtur M. Winfleld (Edward Stratemeyer) - Grosset and Dunlap...