“This charming little tale must be classified rather as an essay in pure comedy than as a reproduction of actual life.”
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MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD). Boy heroes in fiction. il *$1.75 (2c) Crowell
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The stories of seven boy heroes in fiction are here presented in condensed form. The foreword says, “Some of these boy heroes of yesterday may not be known to boys of today, partly because their stories are imbedded in extra large volumes, which do not stop with boy life, but include many other things. It has been the happy task, therefore, of the present editor to disentangle and condense these stories, presenting only the portions which pertain to the boy life of each hero.” Contents: Little Gavroche (from “Les misérables”); David Balfour (from “Kidnapped”); Oliver Twist; Jim Davis (from Masefield’s “Jim Davis”); David Copperfield; Jim Hawkins (from “Treasure island”); and John Halifax.
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“Her volumes would have gained as much in effect as they would have lost in length had she limited herself to quotations instead of supplementing them with paraphrases.”
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MCFEE, MRS INEZ NELLIE (CANFIELD). Girl heroines in fiction. il *$1.75 (2c) Crowell