VILLIERS, FREDERIC. Villiers, his five decades of adventure. 2v il *$6 (7½c) Harper
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Two volumes devoted to the life of a veteran war correspondent and artist. He was born in 1851, in England, and his first association with wars came in 1870 when he went over to Paris to pick up material for a panorama of the Franco-Prussian war. The next adventure that offered was the war between Serbia and Turkey in 1876, and others followed, taking him to every part of the earth, down to the great war. The volumes are illustrated.
“These tales of five decades of adventure must be placed among the greatest of autobiographies.” E. J. C.
+ Boston Transcript p11 D 8 ’20 750w
“Here between covers are the dramatic figures and the stirring events of two and a half generations presented by a writer trained throughout a lifetime in the art of bringing out all the high lights and shades of dramatic contrasts.”
+ N Y Times p18 D 12 ’20 2600w
“With long practice in telling the public what it wanted to know, it might go without saying that this autobiography is chatty and interesting from start to finish.”
+ Springf’d Republican p10 Ja 21 ’21 520w