The London Literary World says: “In ‘The Idlers’ Mr. Morley Roberts does for the smart set of London what Mrs. Wharton has done in ‘The House of Mirth’ for the American social class of the same name. His primary object seems to be realism, the portrayal of life as it is without exaggeration, and we were impressed by the reserve displayed by the novelist. It is a powerful novel, a merciless dissection of modern society similar to that which a skilful surgeon would make of a pathological case.”
The New York Sun says: “It is as absorbing as the devil. Mr. Roberts gives us the antithesis of ‘Rachel Marr’ in an equally masterful and convincing work.”
Professor Charles G. D. Roberts says: “It is a work of great ethical force.”
Stand Pat
Or, Poker Stories from Brownville. By David A. Curtis, author of “Queer Luck,” etc.
With six drawings by Henry Roth $1.50
Mr. Curtis is the poker expert of the New York Sun, and many of the stories in “Stand Pat” originally appeared in the Sun. Although in a sense short stories, they have a thread of continuity, in that the principal characters appear throughout. Every poker player will enjoy Mr. Curtis’s clever recital of the strange luck to which Dame Fortune sometimes treats her devotees in the uncertain game of draw poker, and will appreciate the startling coups by which she is occasionally outwitted.
The Count at Harvard
Being an Account of the Adventures of a Young Gentleman of Fashion at Harvard University. By Rupert Sargent Holland.