“To become an adept in the craft of storytelling sometimes means advancement in literary style; had it been so in Mr Brebner’s case he would not have opened one of his chapter-sections with such a passage as ‘The crisp air of the morning had not yet let go of the world.’”
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“‘The ivory disc’ will furnish the reader with a harmless kind of diversion and will make no extortionate demands either upon his attention or upon his intellect.”
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“The book can be recommended to lovers of sensation and cheap sentimental versions of occultism.”
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“A distressing story. Apparently the author wants to make our flesh creep. But, somehow, he does not.”
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BRERETON, FREDERICK SADLIER. Great war and the R. A. M. C. *$6 Dutton 940.475
(Eng ed 20–285)