Frotispiece by Norman Rockwell in “The American Magazine,” November, 1918, illustrating Booth Tarkington’s “Ramsey Milholland.”
“All of the class were bright with happy anticipation, for the miserable Ramsey seldom failed their hopes, particularly in ‘Declamation.’ He faced them, his complexion apoplectic, his expression both baleful and terror-stricken; and he began in a loud, hurried voice, from which every hint of intelligence was excluded.”
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was one of the most popular writers of the early 20th century. “Ramsey Milholland” is a humorous story of an average American schoolboy in the years preceding WWI, which soon “morphs into a young-man-going-to-war story.”
Frotispiece by Norman Rockwell in “The American Magazine,” November, 1918, illustrating Booth Tarkington’s “Ramsey Milholland.”
“All of the class were bright with happy anticipation, for the miserable Ramsey seldom failed their hopes, particularly in ‘Declamation.’ He faced them, his complexion apoplectic, his expression both baleful and terror-stricken; and he began in a loud, hurried voice, from which every hint of intelligence was excluded.”
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was one of the most popular writers of the early 20th century. “Ramsey Milholland” is a humorous story of an average American schoolboy in the years preceding WWI, which soon “morphs into a young-man-going-to-war story.”