Howard, George Bronson. Norroy, diplomatic agent; il. by Gordon Ross. $1.50. Saalfield.
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Seven diplomatic detective adventures in which Yorke Norroy figures as secret agent of the United States. He always has in his possession the means to foil his opponent in the big international games being played, and the analysis of his method of securing the trump card reveals shrewd practical imagination at work and the adroit handling of resulting situations.
“The seven stories are good reading at any time, and particularly when the mind longs for diversion.”
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Howard, John Raymond, ed. Prose you ought to know. **$1.50. Revell.
The editor’s “aim in the present volume is to gather, from a wide range of authorship and subject-matter, a series of brief excerpts, each of which shall be typical of its author’s best style, and, besides exciting a momentary interest, shall ‘at least hint at the richness of an essay, a tale, a history, an oration.’”—Dial.
“Has been edited ... with an intelligence and originality that will make it acceptable even to the avowed enemy of the ordinary book of extracts.”