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Brief Reviews.
Getting Rich Quick,' by George Dil
not. Geoffrey Bles, London. 10/6
From the publisher.
»u uuc may reaa oi tne amazing ex
Dloits of the ingenious Madame Hum
bert; of confidence men, such as thai
ucturesque rascal, Frank Tarbeaux- ol
the 'Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte
^arlo,. thereby inspiring a song exceed
ingly popular in the 'naughty nineties'-
°? WUh_elm Voi8t» the Captain of Kope
nick, who set all Europe, indeed the whole
world, laughing in 1906, by his success
ul impersonation of an officer of the
German Imperial Guards; and of many
other rogues and swindlers, who even
tually came to grief by too persistently
practising then- more or less original
methods of 'getting rich quick.'
A LTHOUGH Mr- Dilnot's new work is
m, an ^f1?11* plece of book-making, it
will probably attract readers who are
nterested in crime and criminology in
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