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A Friend of Letters
Mencken, H. L. | June 5, 1935 issue

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This article focuses on the book "Chronicles of Barabbas, 1884-1934," by George H. Doran. It makes, like other autobiography, very good reading, for no man, writing about himself, can be really dull. If he lets fall the truth he admits once more to the ever amusing imbecility of humankind, and if he tries to lie one catch's him easily, and are amused the more. Mr. Doran's entertainment belongs predominantly to the former category. It may be that, in dealing with his own professional prodigies, he sometimes teases the facts a bit, and it may be that, in paying off people he dislikes, he sometimes enhooches justice with a dash of his native Calvinism, but on the whole he seems to stick pretty close to the record.

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CHRONICLES of Barabbas 1884-1934 (Book); DORAN, George H.; AUTOBIOGRAPHIES; AMUSEMENTS; CALVINISM; BOOKS & reading
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