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Fiction in Brief
November 20, 1929 issue

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The article presents information on several books. The book "The Virtue of This Jest," by James Stuart Montgomery is a lively, picaresque tale, laid in eighteenth-century London, England. The author seems easily at home in the London of the time and combines with his historical sense, a gift for story-telling and a delightful, ironic style. The book "East South East," by F.V. Morley is an adventure story without a heroine. The book is a robust yarn in which the hero, with the practicality of the early nineteenth-century American, combines a whaling voyage with a treasure hunt and nearly finds himself mixed up in shady French politics.

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BOOKS & reading; VIRTUE of This Jest, The (Book); EAST South East (Book); MONTGOMERY, Stuart; MORLEY, F. V.; FICTION
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