Talk:"Georgie"

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 * Outlook Nov 17 1906: The "hero" of this tale simply could not help getting engaged to every pretty girl he met. Moreover, the pretty girls not only fell victim to his irresponsible love-making, but continued to like and admire him after the inevitable break came. Such a book might easily be made silly, but in fact this is thoroughly amusing.


 * The male inconstant has at least one fixed quality—his. value, in print. Steadfast in fickleness, he may be an Abraham Cowley, a Don Juan, a Lothario, or perhaps the Trenholm whom Mrs. Wright pictured in "The Aliens," the man who was, as said one of his relicts, "part of our education." Or he may be a "Georgie," differing from all these. This modern young athlete, with his beguiling smile, is not a knight who flirts and runs away. Rather is he, or is meant to be, a hopelessly, helplessly engaging boy whose small heart-affairs flutter about him, and perch upon him, charming him, annoying him, involving him by turns. It is they that are butterflies rather than he. Among them he stands occupying a boyish, scampish, serio-comic central position till at last Fate drives him away to South America. The book is frankly comic with the unmistakable touch of Great Britain in its quality of fun, particularly in those passages which reproduce the American girl's dialect as conceived by the English humorist. They must be seen to be not believed. But though, belonging to the bubbles of bookmaking, the story is of an ingratiating kind, and serves to wreathe an hour in half-protesting smiles.