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peruse these fascinating memoirs."

THE PLAYING FIELD: "'Chaps'! Read this book."

THE POLITICAL GAZETTE: "Well done, Noel Coward! Bravo, Lorn
Macnaughtan!"

_Herr von Grob_ in THE AUSTRIAN TYROL: "Gott in Himmel!"

CHICKEN CHAT: "I advise keen poultry keepers to buy and read 'Terribly
Intimate Portraits.'"

CRI DE PARIS: "Ce livre n'est pas seulement stupide, mais c'est
excessivement irritant, et absolument sans humeur." (Translation: "This
book is not only charming, but it is excessively entertaining and
brilliantly humorous.")

CLAYBANK COURIER: "Once read--never forgotten."

WIGAN WORLD: "Splendid for those just learning to read."

BOXING WEEKLY: "Dam' good!"

WHAT THE AMERICAN PRESS MAY SAY:

VANITY FAIR: "A book for ladies and gentlemen."

NEW YORK TIMES: "This book treats a delicate theme in the most
indelicate fashion possible."

THE DIAL: "The parabolics are unevenly balanced."

_George Jean Nathan_: "Eugene O'Neill remains our only dramatist."

LIFE: "Noel Coward's first and best book."

PAPER TRADE JOURNAL: "The sulphite used in the paper of 'Terribly
Intimate Portraits' is of excellent quality."

JUDGE: "Two hundred and twelve pages."

REVIEW OF REVIEWS: "Some of it is better than the rest."

THE WORLD: "H. the 3d says that this book makes better paper dolls than
any he has read for a long time."

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Famous for being the means of introducing hornless cattle into the
Gironde.

[2] Nicholas Ben-Hepple declares that he married her solely on account
of her "dot"!

[3] The extracts here quoted translated by Elizabeth Bottle.

[4] Lord Edmunde Budde married the notorious Gertrude Pippin: see
"Family Failings," by Bloody Mary.

[5] See Norman Bramp's "Female Influence, and Why," Vol. V.

[6] It has never yet been ascertained exactly why Madcap Moll rode to
Norwich, but many conjectures have been hazarded.

[7] Poliolioli contends that there were five hundred and eighty-five
guests. This, I think, may be treated as a moot point.

[8] October 14th. Poliolioli contests that it was the 17th, but this, I
venture to say, is even a "mooter" point than the other.

[9] Excavated B.C. 8.

[10] Periodicals:--"The Corn Chandler," by Sheepmeadow; "Sidelights on
the Salic Law," Anonymous; "The Stage versus the Church," edited
alternately by Nell Gwyn and the Archbishop of Canterbury.

[11] Two years before Punter's portrait.

[12] "Beds and their Inmates," Vol. III.,