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...first time at the age of 21. His mother had died in childbirth and that shock, and the disappointment occasioned by Harold's not being a girl, had so disappointed Papa that he turned over Harold to Aunt Sadi, who made rather a sissy of him as a boy. Conventional, ingenious, inexperienced, Harold was horrified to find that his father's plans for his future included neither a family reunion nor an entry into the paternal cloak and suit business, but that instead his father proposed flinging him into the waters of life to sink or swim alone, assisted...
...trees and alabaster cups?pickled walnuts and plovers' eggs?Darius Milhaud and Ouida?a patchwork of curious names, objects, personages, vices?a plate of literary antipasto, some pleasant, some a little stale. Somewhat affected, somewhat precious, quite amusing, though not nearly as delightful as Peter Whiffle, The Blind Bow-Boy reviews a facile display of intellectual fireworks from under the lacquered eyelids of a superficial sophistication. The fireworks squib out, the performance is over. There were too many pinwheels near the close, perhaps, and the shadow of Ronald Firbank had a way of straying across the scene. But, nevertheless...
...Critics. The New York World: " The Blind Bow-Boy marks to us a certain movement back to the conventional by Mr. Van Vechten. It is sometimes annoying but always readable and entertaining...
...Coolidge wrote to Dr. Alonzo G. Howard of Boston that he would probably accept the latter's offered gift of a wire-haired fox terrier, Peter Pan. Laddie Boy was given away by Mrs. Harding to one of the White House guards. Peter Pan, three months old, one of six children, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Babbie, bids fair to become Presidential hound...
...make any prophecies as to 100,000-sellers for the Fall, it is sane enough perhaps to attempt to point the modest finger of discrimination at some few novels which seem worth recommending to the judicious reader, sight unseen. Imprimis, The Rover, by Conrad. And The Blind Bow-Boy which Carl Van Vechten, its author, describes as " a cartoon for a stained glass window," whatever that means. Jennifer Larne, a sedate extravaganza by Elinor Wylie. And the new Hergesheimer if it's the one we think it is. Meanwhile, the literary roulette-wheel spins...