+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ja 14 ’21 530w
“In spite of a tendency to repetition, his book will be welcomed widely as the good thing which it undeniably is—a book frankly written and free from prejudice or exaggeration.”
+ The Times [London] Lit Sup p121 F 19 ’20 1850w
BELL, JOHN KEBLE (KEBLE HOWARD, pseud.). Peculiar major. *$1.75 (2½c) Doran
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“An almost incredible story” says the subtitle, and so it is. The major had been given a ring by an old Turkish priest in ransom for his life. This ring was found to possess the magic property of making its bearer invisible. It first brought the major into repute as a lunatic, then into all manner of scrapes and out again and so from one Arabian nights’ entertainment into another until the war was over and we leave him returned to England and in the arms of his best-beloved.
Boston Transcript p4 My 26 ’20 300w
“Mr Howard has produced a book that will be a welcome relief from much of the dreary fiction of the day.”
+ N Y Times 25:71 F 8 ’20 600w