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A Biographer's Tricks
Fadiman, Clitton P. | October 16, 1929 issue

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This article literally appraises the book "The Incredible Marquis," by Herbert Gorman. Some books seem to be as much the publisher's inspiration as the author's. Here is one of them, a large and handsome production heralded as "an adventurous and glamorous biography," pointed up with a false catch-title, and tricked out with sure-lire devices for hypnotizing the attention of the uncritical reader. It is excellent trade-goods, a book clearly manufactured to hit the popular taste and yet, with its miscellaneous slag-heaps of erudition, to enlist the applause of the critics.

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INCREDIBLE Marquis, The (Book); GORMAN, Herbert; BIOGRAPHY; CREATIVE ability; LEARNING & scholarship; BOOKS & reading
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