The vogue achieved by ' Rodney Sbone ' and 'The Wheels of Chance' may not impossibly tempb other popular writers to try thoir hands at aggressively sporting novels. Mr Rider Haggard, for example, oughb to shine in that line. Ot>o of the best things he ever did was the description of the wrestling boub in the 'Wibch'i Head.1 Mr George Bernard Shaw, too, might give ns another pugilist hero. How many readers of today know hia ' Coshel Byron's Profession V Both it and ' The Unsocial Socialist' have disappeared from hlio bookstalls, though they deserved longer life than muoh trash which Eur> vivo*.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 42, 20 February 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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