IRWIN, WALLACE ADMAH (GINGER, pseud.). Trimmed with red. *$1.75 (2c) Doran
20–6843
A farcical story involving parlor Socialists and society Bolshevists. Rosamonde Vallant, the young and beautiful wife of a middle-aged and choleric husband, has just gone thru a course in esoteric eastern philosophy and wearying of it, has turned to revolution. Her cousin, Emily Ray, who is in love with Oliver Browning, uses Rosamonde’s house as a convenient meeting place. Oliver is a soldier who has been wounded in the service of his country, but alas the wound had come from the kick of an army mule and Aunt Carmen refuses to see him in a romantic light. Emily becomes deeply involved in bolshevist plots and a revolutionary professor falls in love with her, but she returns in the end to Oliver and his mules.
+ Booklist 16:348 Jl ’20
Reviewed by R. M. Underhill
Bookm 51:443 Je ’20 60w + Boston Transcript p8 S 15 ’20 370w
“Pure farce, but most of it is really funny.”
+ Ind 103:323 S 11 ’20 40w
“He had a ‘grand and glorious’ opportunity to create another droll classic out of the materials used in this book. He did make an attempt in this direction—an attempt that is well worth reading. Measured by what it might have been, however, the book is a failure.” Ralph Cheyney