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The South Countryman: what he reads and how he writes
A.G. STREETTHIS is a difficult subject inasmuch that rural dwellers differ widely in almost every respect. The motor car has made it possible for all sorts of town dwellers to live in the…
The Monstrous Regiment of Reviewers
G.W. STONIERONCE the shyest and most elusive of mortals—member of no trade union or craft—a lonely figure in drawing‐rooms and in the quietness of the London Library—the Reviewer (like some…
A Reviewer's Thoughts on Reviewing
JOHN MACNAIR REIDTO the ordinary person who buys a book or secures what he wants from the library, the name of the publisher is of little account. How many readers of The Good Companions or Arabia…
The Contemporary Scene
STANLEY SNAITHI SUPPOSE the question uppermost in the mind of a reader seriously considering the state of fiction at the present time must inevitably be: where are the successors to the thrones…
Reminiscences of Mark Twain
P. RICHARDSMY first meeting with the distinguished humorist goes back to 1903, when he consented to sit to me for his pen‐portrait, which a leading New York weekly was anxious to publish…