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...many aliases, a strange lad who wanders through the countryside impersonating now a preacher, now a young actor, now a decrepit bank messenger-a "long procession of persons, created by himself, and every one of them fleeing before the police." Sometimes he grew anxious for their safety. And the reader assuredly grows dizzy. Bojer has a graphic, stark style, a trick of creating atmosphere in a single sentence...
...money giving fetes, parties, balls, and use every device to get into society, or what is left of it, but all their doings will only be a sham. You cannot make a silk purse out of a soused mackerel, neither will they command the same respect." Which leaves the reader somewhat in doubt as to the object of the comparison-and the respect. A book quite without guile, absolutely without discretion, for the most part mildly amusing, on some few occasions, penetrating...
...public eye. It is not a work of enduring value and probably was not intended as such. The author, who, under the name of Iconoclast, accepts at least the one idol of anonymous authorship of political sketches, is very diffuse and insists on presenting his own conceptions when the reader would prefer to be given the facts and allowed to draw his own conclusions...
...took a hand at San Juan, in Luzon, in the Boxer Rebellion, in an Honduran revolution, in the Great War, and tells about them all as his personal adventures. The book has no style except the lingo of the doughboy, but it makes a flowing tale that carries the reader off forgetfully, through innumerable adventures, human, dangerous, unbelievable, yet convincingly real...
...noble illiteracy," a language "more flexible than that of the average university graduate," showing "richness of thought and imagination." It is native speech "undiluted by the Ink of the academic or journalistic." Clearly a language meant to be spoken, not printed, and this makes it very difficult for the reader of the printed version to enter into the spirit of either language or play...