Word: errant
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fiction is, as usual, of uneven merit. "The City of Hoggsville" and "Adin Ray Knight Errant" are slight, but distinctly amusing. "Room-mates" introduces a good situation, but the difficulty is not sufficiently explained by the subsequent appearance of a cheap and consumptive sister to the mysterious "mate." "A Hater of Pictures" is written, perhaps intentionally, in that racy style that one associates with tracts, but the denouement is cleverly concealed till the last sentence, and then it is so sudden that the it leaves the reader gasping...
...added 47 volumes of the Tauchnitz edition under the following titles: "A Daughter of Heth," "Judith Shakespeare," "Macleod of Dare," "Shandon Bells," "In Silk Attire," "The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton," "Three Feathers," by W. Black; "The Indiscretion of the Duchess," by A. Hope; "In the Golden Days," "Knight-Errant," "We Two," by E. Lyall; "A Sailor's Sweetheart," by W. C. Russell; "Sketches in Italy," "New Italian Sketches," by J. A. Symonds; "The Initials," "Quits," by Baroness Tautphoeus; "Can You Forgive Her?", "The Duke's Children," "The Prime Minister," by A. Trollope; "Mr. Smith," by L. B. Walford; "Marcella...