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In The Four Men he has written a travel-book which more than any other of his works has something of the passion of a personal confession. Here the pilgrim becomes nearly genial as he indulges in his humours against the rich and against policemen and in behalf of Sussex against Kent and the rest of the inhabited world. Mr. Chesterton has spoken of Mr.
Bliss was a capable, energetic man, with a taste for humor, and believed there was money for author and publisher in the travel-book. The proposition pleased Mark Twain, who replied at once, asking for further details as to Bliss's plan. Somewhat later he made a trip to Hartford, and the terms for the publication of "The Innocents Abroad" were agreed upon.
"Get him aboard as fast as we can, and get out of here with him. Walt, you're coming along, aren't you?" That was what we'd agreed, while Glenn Murell was still the famous travel-book author. I wanted to get out of it, now. There wouldn't be anything happening aboard the Javelin, and a lot happening here in Port Sandor.
Here I lie and study an old travel-book. I mean to press it to the last drop. One seldom presses books out, nowadays. The mania for scraps of one kind or another, the general cheapening of printed matter, seem to have dulled that faculty and given us a scattered state of mind.
We got a letter from her, the last time the Cape Canaveral was in, saying that she'd contacted Argentine Organics and that a man was coming out on the Peenemünde, posing as a travel-book author. Well, he's here, now." "You'd better keep an eye on him," I advised. "If Steve Ravick gets to him, he won't be much use to you." "You think Ravick would really harm Murell?" Dad asked. He thought so, too.
'Happen he've got hold of a fresh travel-book. Then Ned's thoughts easily slipped off to the subject of other 'travel-books' devoured by Alick and retailed to himself. He pictured vividly, as the 'Roarer' swished through the dark waters, a far different scene to that of the quiet Northbourne bay.
Without a word of letter-press they would have formed an excellent travel-book; taken in conjunction with Mrs. Boyd's narrative they are irresistible." Illustrated by A.S. Boyd Extracts from Reviews
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