Europe Revised

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Irwin Cobb’s waggish Europe Revised is a travel piece and amusement roughly in the writing style of Mark Twain. The work is mostly dedicated, “To My Small Daughter Who bade me shed a tear at the tomb of Napoleon, which I was very glad to do, because when I got there my feet certainly were hurting me.”

It has for all time appeared to some critics that the primary shortcoming of the regular handbook is that it is much loaded with information. Handbooks herein have created a line of details, have thriven in them, information to be seen on each page and in each paragraph. Construing such a book, you envisage that the infatuated writer told himself, “I will just naturally fill this thing chock-full of facts”–and then went and did so to the extent of a prolonged debauch.

Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was a U. S. writer, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky who moved to New York in 1904, settling there for the rest of his life. He contributed for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer’s newspaper, as the greatest waged staff reporter in America.

Irvin also made over 60 books and 300 short fictions. Several of his writings were produced into silent films. Many of his Judge Priest short fictions were produced in the 1930s for two feature motion pictures with John Ford as the director.

Irvin begun in journalism with the Paducah Daily News when he was 17 years old, and was the nation’s youngest managing news editor when he was 19 years old. He was then hired at the Louisville Evening Post for a year and a half.

His subjective memoir-cum-autobiography, Exit Laughing, contains a prime report of the assassination of Kentucky Governor William Goebel in 1900 and the prosecutions of the murderers. He authored various series in publications, and worked together on theatrical productions.
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