Month: September 2013

  • Mr Mencken Recommends … Dragon’s Blood

    There is a nice illustrated version of Henry Milner Rideout’s Dragon’s Blood (Houghton-Mifflin, 1909) available from Project Gutenberg. From Smart Set 28(3):153-160 (1909-07) [546 words]: [Dragon’s Blood is] a novel of great merit and greater promise. A hundred journeyman fictioneers might have imagined the story it tells, but a distressingly small number, even among the…