THE DEVIL'S PEEPSHOW A STORY OF 1906 by The Author of "A Time of Terror" .

[Ford, Douglas Moret.]

Published by Hurst and Blackett, London, 1907

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Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii 1-326 [327-328: ads], original pictorial cloth, front and spine panels stamped in brown, black and gold. First edition. A political/social reform novel. "The author of the book under review continues the trend of his previous work, which his to say what he thinks of today's politics and what he fears of tomorrow's . He cements the pill with a good stiff glue of melodrama, which owes its life to an abandoned woman (one of a pair of impostors), a bottle of vitriol, and the country church which was struck by lightning about a year ago and caused much comment in England . There is comment on the recent marriage of the Queen of Spain and on the question of conscription. Concerning the later the author -- and this, at any rate, is a good argument -- advocates compulsory military training in order to assist the regeneration of the increasing pauper and slum classes, the perpetuation of whom in unclean and miserable surroundings cannot be for the nation's good. Conscription, he says, would help largely to improve these people and their children unborn, and he is doubtless right. He utters a caution, too, against, the self-seeking Socialists who pretend to work for these people, and he derides the pro-Zuluism of Mr. Keri Bardie" (THE REGISTER 31 August 1907). Holding libraries do not indicate authorship this anonymously published novel, but A TIME OF TERROR was written by Douglas Moret Ford. Cloth worn and soiled, part of a lending library label affixed to the front paste-down, inner front hinge cracked (but still holding strong), some text pages soiled, a sound reading copy. (#170427).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE DEVIL'S PEEPSHOW A STORY OF 1906 by The Author of "A Time of Terror" .
• Publisher: Hurst and Blackett, London
• Publication Date: 1907
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Edwardian Fiction