book-reviewer

But who has bothered to read it, and what accredited book-reviewer has troubled himself to accord it the notice it deserves?

The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton

Now, then, it is a curious and a paradoxical thing that no man of masculine character can read the novels written by women to-day, unless he has to; that is, unless he is a book-reviewer, publisher's reader, magazine editor, proofreader, or some such thing.

Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

It is lucky for me that you are not very often a book-reviewer, when I bring out my own shapeless and amateurish books.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932

Some of them are ever so handy at all forms; they are perennial candidates for any job as book-reviewer, dramatic critic, or manuscript-reader, since they have the naïve belief that these occupations require neither toil nor training, and enable one to

The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

What seems to be wanted, then, in a book-reviewer is that, without being servile, he should be swift to praise, and that, without being censorious, he should have the courage to blame.

The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

I say this, though there is an occasional book-reviewer whose preliminary paragraphs I would not miss for worlds.

The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

The foundation of a critical habit in reading has a practical bearing, inasmuch as it is a direct training for the positions of book-reviewer and manuscript reader for magazine and book publishers.

Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife Marion Mills Miller 1906

I have known a book-reviewer give oranges (not poisoned ones) to children.

Novel Notes 1893

I thought of another candidate, -- a book-reviewer whom I could name if I wanted to, -- but after thinking it over, I didn't buy him a clock.

A Tramp Abroad 1879

In the arid life of the book-reviewer there is sometimes found the oasis of opportunity to recommend to a (comparatively) less suffering community a book worth reading.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 Various 1876