User:Malcolm Farmer/reviews/book reviews in Punch

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Punch had a column called "Our Booking-office" conducted by "The Baron de Book-Wormes".

Format is Author, title and PG number of book reviewed, Punch issue & its PG number.

  • Gertrude Atherton The Avalanche #7863 (June 25 1919, #11712)
  • Rex Beach The Winds of Chance #5062 (March 26 1919, #11284)
  • Arnold Bennett: The Roll Call #12654 (February 5 1919, #11868 )
  • J.D. Beresford The Jervaise Comedy #15116 (April 2, 1919, #11617)
  • John Buchan Mr Standfast #560 (June 4 1919, #11963)
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs The Son of Tarzan #90 "Plausibility, even within the limits of his bizarre plans, is not Mr Burroughs' strong suit, but exciting incident, ingeniously imagined and staged, with swift movement, undoubtably is." (April 2 1919 #11617)
  • Ralph Connor The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land (June 4 1919, #11963)
  • F Marion Crawford: A Cigarette-maker's romance. (Punch, November 1, 1890 #12934)
  • Lord Dunsany Tales of War #5713 (March 12 1919, #11094)
  • H. Rider Haggard: Moon of Israel #2856 (Punch January 22, 1919, #11225)
  • Joseph Hergesheimer The Three Black Pennys #15135 (Punch February 26 1919, #11359)
  • Jerome K. Jerome
    • Told After Supper PG#1993 (Punch January 3 1891 PG #12860)
    • Diary of a Pilgrimage PG#2024 (Punch May 16 1891 PG#13348)
  • Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed PG#2876 (Punch January 24 1891, PG#12872). The reviewer didn't like it. Punch November 21 1891, PG# 14229 has another reeview. He still didn't like it.
  • Andrew Lang:
    • Essays in Little PG#1594 (Punch March 14 1891 PG #13186)
    • Angling Sketches #2022 (Punch November 21 1891, PG# 14229)
  • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Up The Hill and Over #10438 (Punch February 26 1919, #11359)
  • Somerset Maugham The Moon and Sixpence #222 (May 7 1919, #12079)
  • George Meredith: One of the Conquerors (presumably "One of our Conquerors", PG #4476) Punch May 16 1891 PG#13348 There's a comment in the June 6 issue that the Baron de B-W had mislaid volume one halfway through, followed by favourable comments in the June 27 issue (#13421) The Baron is still reading it by September 19th issue (#13961)
  • Alice Duer Miller Ladies Must Live #12789 (Punch February 19 1919, #14146)
  • Hector Hugh Munro (SAKI) The Toys of Peace #1477 (Punch February 26 1919, #11359)
  • Gilbert Parker Wild Youth and Another; Wild Youth is #6291; the other story "Jordan Is a Hard Road" is not in this PG text. (Punch March 5 1919, #11201)
  • Alice Hegan Rice: Miss Mink's Soldier #15230 (Punch January 1 1919, #10964)
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart The Amazing Interlude #1590 (Punch February 19 1919, #14146)
  • Rabindranath Tagore The Home and the World #7166 (25 June 1919 #11712)
  • Booth Tarkington The Magnificent Ambersons #8867 (Punch March 5 1919, #11201)
  • Hugh Walpole: The Secret City #12349 (Punch February 12 1919, #11109)
  • Oscar Wilde
    • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories #773 (Punch September 19 1891 #13961)
    • On the Decay of Lying (in "Intentions", PG#887) Punch May 30 1891, PG#13390
    • The Picture of Dorian Gray "The Baron recommends anybody who revels in diablerie, to begin it about half-past ten, and to finish it at one sitting up; but those who do not so revel he advises not to read it at all, or to choose the daytime, and take it in homeopathic doses." (with a cartoon of Wilde as the Fat Boy from Pickwick Papers, saying "I want to make your flesh creep!") (Punch, July 19 1890 PG#11919)


And this list of books reviewed, not yet seen in PG. The authors below have books in PG, and may have these books added at some point. Some of these are quite famous authors. Author, title, issue with the review, issue's PG number

  • Harold Begbie Mr Sterling Sticks it Out (May 28 1919, 12232)
  • E.F. Benson Across the Stream (May 28 1919, #12232)
  • M.E. Braddon One Life, One Love (Punch Feb 7 1891 #13074)
  • Maud Diver Strange Roads (May 7 1919, #12079)
  • Arthur Conan Doyle Danger! and other stories (Punch January 8 1919, #11133)
  • J.S. Fletcher Droonin' Watter (April 30 1919 #11429)
  • John Galsworthy Another Sheaf (Punch February 12 1919, #11109)
  • Henry James Within the Rim (Punch March 26 1919, #11284)
  • Rose Macaulay What Not (April 23, 1919 #11872)
  • Compton Mackenzie Sylvia and Michael (Punch April 9 1919, #12614)
  • John Masefield St George and the Dragon (Punch March 12 1919, #11094)
  • Lucas Malet: The Wages of Sin (Punch March 21 1891 #13269)
  • Governeur Morris His Daughter (June 4 1919, #11963)
  • Baroness Orczy Flower o'the Lily (Punch January 29, 1919, #13927)
  • Frederick Palmer America in France (April 30, 1919 #11429)
  • Dorothy M. Richardson The Tunnel (April 30, 1919 #11429)
  • Vita Sackville-West Heritage (June 18 1919, #11630
  • H.G. Wells The Undying Fire (June 11 1919, #11670)
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