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...play opens on a barren near a railroad grade. Into the assembly of tramps awaiting the evening freight come the girl and a stubby red-headed youth, who has elected to assist her flight from justice. Two savage tramps fall in love with her; detectives pick up the trail and the second act is played in a box car of the westering freight. The stubby redhead protects her from the tramps, finally winning their admiration, and their aid in a getaway across the Border...
Still later he lunched with C.W. Barren, Publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Barron is a large breeder of Guernsey cattle, and Mrs. Coolidge asked him why it is that some cows' horns curl up and other cows' horns curl down...
...moral of these three little fables, selected at random from a large number, is distressingly clear. Cambridge is not, in the summer time, a center of scholarly reflection and philosophic calm. It is on the contrary a barren desert, a dry waste in which there is no life but the feeble twittering of the summer school. And the reason for it all is that the average overworked professor, far from remaining to pursue his researches, follows as rapidly as he can the line of fastest departure for the seashore and the woods--precisely, in fact, like the average overworked undergraduate...
...Dorinda was first stunned by the blow, then slowly forged hard. She wandered in New York, fell (arbitrarily) into good hands, was disembarrassed of her child, went back to Pedlar's Mill with her secret intact, her spirit erect. She beat back the broom sedge, brought prosperity from barren ground. She beat back memory, married out of respect, and for convenience, gained a strong contentment without love. At 50, hale and evenminded, she had only pity left for the dying Jason. As from an eminence hard won, she saw lives as fretful incidents and watched her wide horizon...
...BARREN GROUND-Ellen Glasgow-Doubleday, Page...