[Adults] {Spam? 3.29} logomachy

Pouliotte Scanlin courante at zmo-mainz.de
Tue Apr 1 16:59:43 CEST 2014


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"Mr. Zangwill has an original way of being funny. He is full of clever and witty, paradoxical and epigrammatical, surprises. His book is a splendid tonic for gloomy spirits." EVENING NEWS: "Not one in a score of the amusing books which come from the press is nearly so amusing as this." SUNDAY TIMES: "Read, laugh over, and profit by the history of 'The Bachelors' Club,' capitally told by a fresh young writer." GLOBE: "A clever and interesting book Agreeable satire. Store of epigram." REFEREE: "A new comic writer. There is a touch of the devilry of Heine in Mr. Zangwill's wit." SCOTSMAN: "Any one who has listened to what the wild waves say as they beat the shores of Bohemia will read the book with enjoyment and appreciate its careless merriment." FREEMAN'S JOURNAL: "Very clever and amusing; highly interesting, humorous and instructive." PICTORIAL WORLD: "One of the smartest books of the season. Brimful of funny ideas, comically expressed." MAN OF THE WORLD: "Witty to excess. To gentlemen who dine out, the book will furnish a stock of 'good things' upon every conceivable subject of conversation." GRANTA: "A book of genuine humour. Full of amusing things. The style is fresh and original." DISILLUSION: _A STORY WITH A PREFACE._ BY DOROTHY LEIGHTON, _Author of "As a Man is Able."_ THREE VOLS. AT ALL LIBRARIES. * * * * * "The leading characters in this typically modern tale are very well drawn, and the author has distanced all her fellow-novelists of her own sex in the delineation of a woman whose heartlessness may be truly called devilish. The strength of this portrait is remarkable. The other woman is effective too, and the tangle of the relations of the three is put right by a device of startling originality."--_World._ "Few cleverer books have come 
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