Booklist 16:242 Ap ’20 Cleveland p71 Ag ’20 60w Lit D p127 Mr 27 ’20 1300w
“These stories make interesting reading, though they are remote from any trace of realism.” Alvin Winston
+ N Y Call p11 Mr 21 ’20 300w
“Here we have Mr Cobb in all his varying moods of farce and pathos, reminiscence, stern logic, and ironical tragedy. The tale which opens the book, ‘The gallowsmith,’ manifestly belongs to him who wrote ‘The escape of Mr Trimm’ and the wonderful narrative of ‘The bell buzzard.’”
+ N Y Times 25:57 F 1 ’20 700w + Springf’d Republican p11a Mr 21 ’20 350w
COBB, IRVIN SHREWSBURY, and RINEHART, MARY (ROBERTS) (MRS STANLEY MARSHALL RINEHART). Oh, well, you know how women are! and Isn’t that just like a man! *$1 (8c) Doran 817
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Mr Cobb, at one end of the book, enlarges on the foibles of women—their narrow skirts, their high heels, their habits of impeding the traffic and getting off street cars backward, and then ends with a tribute to their work for the war. Mrs Rinehart, at the other end, reciprocates with comments on the inherent conservatism of men, and their sex clannishness, and then pats them gently on the head for their eternal boyishness and confesses that “we do like them, dreadfully.”
“While some of the jokes will seem trite, there are enough good laughs to compensate.”