A "DRY PICKWICK."
John Lane, the Bodlcv Ilead, announce " The Dry Pickw'ick and Other Incongruities." by Mr. Stephen Lc.icock. The author describes Mr. Pickwick and his friends at Dinglev Dell under tbe distressing restrictions of prohibition, an idea which lie. exploits in his own inimitable way. This sketch gives (lie title to the book, but there are many other sketches and stories on a variety of subjects in which Mr. Leacock indulges his fertile imagination. " Tbe Great War as Recorded by William Shakespeare," " If the Gandhi Habit Spreads," "Children's Poetry Revised," and "Inflation and Deflation " are some of Mr. Lcacock's subjeoto.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)
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101A "DRY PICKWICK." New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 1 (Supplement)
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