“I’ve surprised my American friends by saying I thought prohibition was a good thing. I’ve seen too much tragedy and sordidness, too many babies born of drunken parents. I used to love my cups as well as anybody, and I used to say that regeneration could not be forced on a drunkard by law, but now I think the law will help give him his start anyway.”
[14] Interview in Boston Herald, 18 October 1923.
[15] Interview in The Sun, New York, 21 October 1911, page 16.
[16] “‘B’gad, no!’ Yes, Mr. Farnol talks that way. He has had his characters do it for so long that it comes to him naturally and is in nowise an affectation.”—The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.
“Glasses are a part of his expressive equipment, as much as ‘dammit man’ is, and probably more so than a vest which seems to have acquired a habit of coming unbuttoned.”—Interview by John Anderson in The Evening Post, New York, 23 October 1923, page 12.
[17] R. L. Stevenson: A Critical Study, by Frank Swinnerton. Pages 189, 190.
[18] The Book News Monthly, Philadelphia, November, 1915.
[19] A writer in the London Times, quoted in the Boston Evening Transcript, 24 November 1915.
[20] “The Romance of Jeffery Farnol,” by J. P. Collins. The Bookman, New York, July, 1920.
[21] Quoted by Henry C. Shelley in his article, “Jeffery Farnol and ‘The Broad Highway,’” in The Independent, New York, 7 September 1911.