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BOOKS: Novelists born and made sane successful humour

... representative of one of the big tourist agencies. I should expect him to acquit Mr. Turpin of the charge of exaggeration and content himself with a warning. DlCHARD TURPIN, whose book, Doggett's Tours, will not amuse anybody outside the travelling public ...

Published: Thursday 01 September 1932
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1325 | Page: 76, 77 | Tags: Photographs  Review 

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... Allison (Allen and Unwin, 10s. 6d.) Championships, 1880-1931 (Amateur Athletic .s.? son as.) Doggett's Tours, by Richard Turpin (G]g d 7s. 6d.) Death Dams the Tide. J°h.n Wallace (Gravson, 7s. 6d.) Sergeant Sir Peter, by LdflaI (Chapman and Hall, 7s ...

The Literary Lounger: The Seventeenth Century and the Ancient World

... the fact that Lowe, the personal conductor, the guardian angel malgre lui) of the party, has a private drama of his own. Mr. Turpin tells us a lot about Lowe's charges, but he does not allow us to forget the important question will Major Doggett accept Lowe's ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2399 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Pleasant Vices

... of Rubens and gave birth to one of his most vigorous and striking pictures. What romance still clings to the name of Dick Turpin Who knows that in after years our descendants may not cherish the same feelings of tender ness and admiration for some prominent ...

Published: Wednesday 30 November 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2398 | Page: 45 | Tags: Review