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The author conducts a column in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and this is a volume of his humorous newspaper verse. Among the titles are: To a lady; The lecture; The story of Ug; Things I despise; Things I like; Some Anglicisms; The drawbacks of humor; Love lyrics; We Olympians; The critic’s apology; In various keys; The typewriter’s song; Rural delights; Butter and eggs; The average man.
“Of its kind, Edwin Meade Robinson’s ‘Piping and panning’ is of a pleasant quality. No man may trifle with the muse day after day with impunity, but Mr Robinson has been able to command her support in a fair average of instances. His book discloses a nimble fancy, a facile dominion of vocabulary and verse forms, and a ready wit.” L. B.
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“Many of the verses, it is true, are occasional and uninspired; but the book is a wholly satisfactory one for the good things it has in abundance.” Clement Wood
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ROBINSON, ELIOT HARLOW. Maid of Mirabelle. il *$1.75 (2c) Page
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A story of the last days of the war and the period immediately following. The scene is laid in a village of Lorraine. Here Daniel Steele, an American Friend who has come to France to do relief and reconstruction work, falls under the spell of Joan le Jeune, the maid of Mirabelle. When Daniel had left home he had taken with him the promise of his foster-sister Faith to be his wife on his return. But for a little time Joan makes him forget Faith, and Joan, to whom he brings the romance of strange lands, almost forgets her own soldier lover Jean. But when Jean is under suspicion she turns to him, and Daniel, too, recovering from a wound, finds his thoughts bound up in Faith and is ready to return to his own country leaving Joan to her happiness.