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...years of observation. I regret to say that there is probably no group in this city, proportionate to its members, that supplies us with more criminal business than the local Filipino colony. It is no compliment to the predominant race that most crimes committed by Filipinos have as background intimate relations with white girls. Jealousy between rivals for the affections of the same girl leads to assaults, knifings, and shootings; a desire to provide gifts for the objects of their affections offers temptations for thievery. I am making allowance for the fact that there is a scarcity-I imagine almost...
...anxiety to disclose the organization of modern gangs, Train has sadly neglected his plot and in several places has carelessly forewarned the reader of what will happen twenty pages ahead. His interest in the background is so great that the principal characters become almost incidental--a hardly fitting situation for light fiction however suitable it may be for something with the scope of "Les Miserables." The story is perfectly adequate for a two part novelette, but has been spread out too far to make a full sized book...
Typical of his best work were at least two pictures on exhibition last week: The White Horse, loaned by the Louvre, which shows a long-maned white horse drinking peacefully in a stream while in the background a nude Tahitian girl rides another horse back from the stream to the pasture, and The Call, now the property of Wildenstein & Co. in which three half-clad Tahitians stroll under slender trees against a dark tropical landscape...
...vivid semi-autobiographical tale of a boy's adventures on the Isle of Wight and in the New Forest in Victorian times. Gypsy firesides to which the boy's own Gypsy blood entices him and an ancient school where he learns singlestick and archery provide the picaresque background for adolescent rebellions and escapades...
...plot is at all times kept within the range of reason and provides a good background for the antics of the five ladies. The birth scene is particularly well handled and at no time is the inherent humor of the situation lost sight...