“Any lover of this type of tale must have discovered here [in the Borzoi books] a number of excellent examples, of which ‘The pathway of adventure’ is by no means the least successful.”
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“Events follow familiar lines, but with just enough variation to sustain the interest as incident follows incident.”
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ULLMAN, ALBERT EDWARD. “Line’s busy.” il *$1 (4½c) Stokes 817
Goldie is the telephone operator in a large hotel and she tells her story in slangy letters to her pal Myrtle. Events in which she takes a share from her switchboard reveal her as a girl “always there with the helping hand, no matter how much it’s been lacerated in the past.” In particular the love affairs of her patrons and co-workers interest her, and she straightens out several tangles, and finally, her own love story develops happily.
“A love story that is both clever and jolly is so rare nowadays that one seizes with avidity upon the romance of little Goldie.”
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