“Written with the usual Cobb humor. Described by one reader as ‘a bit thin with an occasional raisin.’”
+ − Booklist 17:104 D ’20 + N Y Evening Post p9 O 30 ’20 110w
“‘The abandoned farmers’ represent Mr Cobb at his happiest.”
+ Outlook 126:768 D 29 ’20 130w
“It is a tale all of which lies in the telling, and with Cobb in the role of Tusitala no one can go wrong in expecting that every phase of humor in the subject will be brought forth.”
+ Review 3:506 N 24 ’20 220w
COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY. From place to place. *$2 (1½c) Doran
20–2846
“Stories about ourselves” is the sub-title of this collection of character sketches. The choice of subjects is unusual. In “The gallowsmith” we have a sympathetically drawn picture of a self-appointed hangman who plied his trade with the pride of a good craftsman till suddenly one day his dormant imagination awoke and—killed him. The other sketches are: The thunders of silence; Boys will be boys; The luck piece; Quality folks; John J. Coincidence; When August the second was April the first; Hoodwinked; The bull called Emily.