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teresting story. Here and there it drags a bit and is 

 dull." 



Castle, E. — The Light of Scarthey. "An absurd 

 story without one sane character in the book." 



Crockett, S. R. — Joan of the Swordhand. "Just 

 a story, and by no means a good one." 



The Black Douglas. " Simply horrible ! With 



this book Mr. Crockett and I part company." 



Daudet, a. — Fromont, Jr., and Risler, Sr. " Char- 

 acteristically French. Unpleasant, but readable. 

 Clever, but neither great nor proper." 



Ebers, Georg. — Uarda. " Very dull at first, with 

 more of interest in the latter half. A historical romance 

 of the time of Moses, not quite successful either as 

 history or romance." 



Ford, P. L. — The Great K. and A. Robbery. 

 " Quite impossible, but fairly entertaining." 



The Honorable Peter Stirling. "Amateur- 

 ish. The love making between Peter and Leonore is 

 nauseating." 



Janice Meredith. " An utterly worthless book. 



A man might resign from the British army and em- 

 igrate to distant lands because he did not approve of 

 his mother's conduct, but with plenty of money at his 

 command, he would not sell himself as a slave. Again, 

 George Washington never had on his staff an officer 

 who was fool enough or knave enough to announce in 

 a dark stable, within the enemy's lines, to the daughter 

 of a Tory, that his superior officer was sleeping in an 

 exposed place and might easily be captured. The 

 heroine, Janice, is an insufferable piece of baggage, 

 that every man apparently, for some unknown reason, 

 wants to marry, and she at times is evidently ready to 



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