A CITY CLERK
The author of "Mr. Pippleberry" has achieved quite a success in his delineation of a character to be found by tens of-thousands in London—the common or garden city clerk who, with melancholy face and grim determination, goes through the daily routine of travel and work. Mr. Pippleberry is a real being with his \ faded umbrella and carefully brushed bowler hat. So is Mrs. Pippleberry, who has ruled and superintended until she has developed a hen-pecking dominance. But there are other characters in the story. There is, for instance, Holt, the young man who makes Mr. Pippleberry's life a living torment. There is Joan, who exchanges shop life for the stage, and lastly there is Miriam, the precious little dancer who rouses the sleeping fires within our hero. Then things begin to happen, and Mr. Pippleberry finds.himself in a Provincial town, instead of his familiar London and his hoiriely suburb, but all ends well, as it should in any well-regulated fairy tale. The discriminating reader will thank John Anderson for writing "Mr Pippleberry," and Rich and Cowan for publishing it. •
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Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 26
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182A CITY CLERK Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 26
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