[*] “He does, indeed, depend upon the memoir writers very largely, but he uses them with intelligence, and makes his book a study in the physiology of court life.”
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[*] “Mr. Farmer has joined his threads skillfully; there is no suggestion of patchwork about his book, which is entertaining to its last page.”
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[*] “The reader feels that he has been in excellent company when he lays the volume down with a regret that it is not longer, or one of a series.”
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Farmer, John S., and Henley, William Ernest. Dictionary of slang and colloquial English. [*]$2.50. Dutton.
This is an abridgment of the seven-volume work by the same authors entitled “Slang and its analogues.” It contains slang expressions and their analogues in English and American usage. A list of more than fifty books to which reference and acknowledgment is made in this volume, is given. The first of these is dated 1440.
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| N. Y. Times. 10:276. Ap. 29, ‘05. 220w. |
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