The Arm-chair at the Inn

{{header | title     = The Arm-chair at the Inn | author    = F. Hopkinson Smith | section   = | previous  = | next      = /Chapter 1/ | year      = 1912 | edition = yes | categories = novels | notes     = [Illustrated by A. I. Keller, Herbert Ward and the author.] For what this story attempts it is an unusually good example of the type. It is hardly a novel at all; merely a series of interesting tales and episodes woven around several picturesque and attractive characters. It owes direct lineage to the Tales of a Wayside Inn, though Mr. Smith has not been entirely the victim of a pedigree. {...] He has selected, as the starting point to the story, a group of hungry men who have been annually meeting at an old historic inn on the coast of France. [...]  the talk covers, in fact, the entire range of human activities, from the psychology of fear to the justification of le mariage de convenance, with incidental side lights on hunting, eating, art, literature, love and religion.—From a review in The Bookman, October 1912 }}

      







