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...Melancholy Adventure", might have been the greatest story in the book; might even have been the greatest story. But in this instance, as in Mr. Maugham's ghost story, the author failed through the attempt to make the commonplace suggest the emotional. Mr. Boyd loses his laurels by pure timidity. No doubt one says less than he means, and it is an offense to open the heart; but Mr. Boyd plods with matter of fact foot along a path where Merrick would have sung with "voice memorial". Perhaps it is not timidity that led Mr. Boyd astray; he sinned...
LAZY LAUGHTER-Woodward Boyd -Scribner ($2.00). The Montgomerys and their relatives were charming people but oh, so lazy-and Dagmar Hallowell was no exception. She did try to make out the firmest sort of a schedule for herself sometimes -a schedule that included rising at seven-but how could she ever keep it when she always overslept? She débuted, she considered a stage career, she tried to be a working-girl, she fell in love-but in each case laziness sucked the strength from each promising adventure. At last she plucked up courage to go to Chicago...
Neigbbore,--Minore Dorothy Lead-better. Mary Sands, Marjorie Snow, Jenny Karabel, Perle Hopson, and Joseph Auslander 4G., John Beckett, Boyd Smith...
Neighbors, Misses Dorothy Leadbetter, Mary Sands, Marjorie Snow, Jenny Karabel, Perle Hopson, Joseph Auslander 4G., Alexander Crane, John Beck, Boyd Smith...
February 3.-The Rev. Boyd Edwards, D. D., Head-Master of the Hill School, Pottstown...