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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1914 



You'll Agree With These Persons 



What Two Youngsters Say 



You know kids well; evidently you have not forgotton the 

 time when you were a boy yourself. There's a lot about kids 

 that never has been written, I guess. At least if it was, I never 

 read it and I read lots. But the trouble is those that write don't 

 know and those that know aren't in the writing game. The way 

 I've figured it out is that the most of those writers, after getting 

 old and grouchy sit down and write about kids as they think 

 maybe we are, and it's one bad job they make of us. 



It is much even for the author of "Monsieur Beaucaire" and "The 

 Gentleman from Indiana," to prove himself in such a book of the Boy 

 Absolute. For such a boy is "Penrod." Mr. Tarkington has added 

 another "Story of a Bad Bay" to a list which is always ready tor lengthen- 

 ing. — The New York World. 



A story of a real boy of this age as Tom 

 Sawyer was real in his. All people who 

 have been boys, or have boys, or know or 

 care anything about boys should like this 

 book. — Boston Globe. 



"Penrod" devoted the most of his time 

 to just being a boy, but he had an unusual 

 number of ways of showing the subtle 

 workings of his ingenious mind. A fine 

 example of Mr. Tarkington's versatility, 

 for he shows in every line that he knows 

 that boys must be taken as they are, and 

 that there is always a way to the better 

 part of a boy who is seemingly all bad. 



— Boston Globe. 



PENROD 



By Booth Tarkington 



Robert W. Chambers says: 



"Penrod" is a fine piece of work and ranks with 

 "The Story of a Bad Boy." I could give it no higher 

 praise. Please offer my sincerest congratulations to 

 Mr. Tarkington. 



Harold MacGrath says: 



Best stuff Tarkington has yet done. Takes you 

 back to "one old cat" and "hub" and pilfered grape- 

 arbors. I was Penrod myself years ago. Don't know 

 how the gent from Indiana found it out, but it's so. 



Ray Stannard Baker says: 



I have read it with downright pleasure and satis- 

 faction. I had two or three old-fashioned laughs out 

 of it, such as I haven't had from any other book in a 

 long time. It is certainly one of Tarkington's best. 



James Montgomery Flagg says: 



The "Penrod" stories are delightful, all of them, 

 and I am quite content to be bromidic and pipe 

 up in the chorus of those who put "Penrod" in the 

 same class of heroes as Tom Sawyer and Tom Bailey. 



That "Penrod" is a classic is not remarkable when 

 you consider who wrote it. 



Ellis Parker Butler says: 



"Tark" has created another immortal boy to stand 

 with Twain's "Tom Sawyer," Aldrich's "Bud," 

 and that's all I can say. But give Booth Tarkington 

 a tip — never let "Penrod" grow up! We need him 

 immortally boyish — so few immortal boys. 



That Booth Tarkington ought to be named Truth Cork- 

 ington, for he certainly is a "Corker." He certainly has got 

 the goods on us Boys. Tell him to go right on and hit us 

 some more. He makes Mark Twain look like a, plugged 

 nickel, or a last year's crow's nest. Only don't let him forget to 

 make these "new girls" stop gauging our dignity till we have to 

 splash 'em — and get ourselves all over "pitch-in." 



All of these stories of a real human of the boy genre are now appearing 

 in book form and the whole nation is deeply indebted to Mr. Booth Tark- 

 ington. The stories have been said to rival Huck Finn. They rival no 

 one. They are the headliners in a class of their own and a new personality 

 has entered literature. In a few short months Penrod Schofield has 



become a national figure and Mr. Schofields 

 all over the country will give their sons 

 and heirs a little more tolerance and con- 

 sideration. — The Central Press Association, 

 Cleveland, 0. 



It is curious how quickly the news of a good book spreads. Suddenly 

 everybody is talking about Booth Tarkington's boy stories "Penrod" and 

 men with thin and graying hair are threatening to become bores by recall- 

 ing incidents in their own boyhood identical with "Penrod's" own. "Pen- 

 rod" is more than funny stories about the funny things that boys do. It 

 shows you the inside of a boy, too; explains his inscrutable and unfathom- 

 able nature, his mysterious ways, his joys and embarrassments, the things 

 that enrage him, and what things make him vain, glorious and proud. — ■ 

 The Globe and Commercial Advertiser, New York City. 



"Penrod" is very like the boy you were 

 at one time, the boy that I might have 

 been, had the gods of sex ruled differently 

 — daring, mischievous, impulsive, quick 

 tempered, swift to resent injustice, rude of 

 tongue yet secretly heart-hungry for the 

 sympathy and approbation so seldom be- 

 stowed. Only a stone image could read 

 this book without laughing — and being 

 wiser too. — The Record Herald, Chicago, III. 



A real contribution of American literature from the standpoints of style 

 and type analysis. One long laugh from beginning to end, interrupted 

 by an occasional sigh for the tragedies of childhood so seldom apparent 

 to older people. — New York Morning Telegraph. 



Mr. Tarkington not only knows boys and the way they think and talk, 



but he has the ability to put these things down on paper as they seem to 



us in fife. If any contemporary book can be called a classic, surely 



"Penrod" may be ranked among the immortals of American boy life in 



our literature. — New York Press. 



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