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...Story* Sequels seem to be out of favor with most prominent American authors - heaven knows why! Hergesheimer, Lewis, Gather, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Dos Passes, et cetera - not one of them seems to care about carrying his or her characters through more than a single volume. Except for James Branch Cabell with his elaborate lineage of Lichfield, the pleasant custom of introducing a favorite character from one book into another seems for the present to have fallen into desuetude among us, at least among the more pretentious of our writers. Which makes it all the more pleasant to come across a volume...
...statement of ownership, management, circulation, et cetera: "Publisher-W. Henry Davis, Editor-W. Henry Davis, Managing Editor-W. Henry Davis, Business Manager-W. Henry Davis, Owner -W. Henry Davis. The known bondholders, mortgagees and other securities are : none...
...expect to bray like jackasses, and bark like dogs, crow like roosters, howl like wolves, kick like mules, run like lightning, lie like Satan-all for thee. And now, may faith, hope and power remain with thee until every vote is counted," et cetera...
...author-to-be of The Parody Outline of History, et cetera, bit into a muffin viciously, interrupting me at the same time. "Of course I can write!" said he, and, thereupon, went...
...Passing Show of 1923 is as huge, as sumptuous, as varied as ever, but the arrangement of this hugeness, sumptuousness, et cetera, is carried out with more intelligence and better artistic taste than in any previous one of the series. There are gorgeous spectacles-royal wedding in Westminster Abbey-a striking scene wherein great chandeliers are decorated with ladies of the chorus pinch-hitting for the usual crystal ornaments-a section of the French Revolution-a flash of dear old Fujiyama -and others-dozens of others-too many to count or describe. In fact about everything spectacular that...