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GOLDEN PEACOCK-Gertrude Atherton -Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). An entertaining account of intrigue and adventure among the ruling cliques of Augustan Rome. The story, told by Pomponia, irrepressible ward of the poet Horace, manages to be more convincing than many a modern yarn...
...four groups by last week had found nothing convincing to outsiders, were still plugging ahead, when there came an event which first blew the lid off the yarn, then clamped it back more confusingly than ever. In a Paramaribo newspaper appeared the tale of one Alfred Harred, newshawk and alleged member of an expedition to determine the boundary of British Guiana: "Art Williams, two Indians and I took off, landed on a tributary of the main Amazon . . . started to trek across the Tumuc-Humac Mountains. . . . After several days we came to a village where all Indians were completely nude...
...your world. Authors Nordhoff & Hall, who for the last 16 years have lived in the South Seas as exiles from civilization, write about a hurricane as two having authority. As popularizers of the epic tale of H. M. S. Bounty they have learned how to spin a stout melodramatic yarn. Plot of The Hurricane is truer to Hollywood than to life, but the details of its color and setting are firsthand, first-rate...
...farms. When they failed he sold them to the Government. When they succeeded he kept the change. For years the legend persisted that Dictator Gomez kept a yacht with steam up night & day in case it should ever be necessary to flee the country. Most authorities doubt such a yarn...
...great distance. To limit "up the trail" hunting to rabbits and birds is as presumptive as calling the hound a fox hound. More likely, it is a rabbit hound which many eastern hunters find quite indispensable. The red-mittencd gentleman's gesture might fit in many a hunting yarn...