Word: fictions
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...current number of the Advocate, throughout a considerable amount of fiction, maintains an unusual degree of capability. The sketches range in theme from the intrigue of a sailor in Java to the gossip of ladies at afternoon bridge. The authors who have contributed these sketches write with assurance. They preserve an air of tried narrative skill; they expound both masculine and feminine character unabashed, as if experience sat lightly upon their shoulders, and no recess of human nature could resist the tolerant ease of their perceptions. Nor do they permit themselves any unduly meretricious display of mastery: restraint and directness...
...like the preacher he used to be, and, at the moment I glimpsed him, very much interested in problems of the American Indian. He is always interested in problems. That is the secret of the success of his books. He knows how to preach, and he preaches well in fiction. His novels are primarily religious, although he might deny that fact. I rather think, however, that he wouldn...
...three most considerable articles, "Tame Asses", "Learning", and "Too Many Educators", address themselves to the absorbing problem of ourselves as undergraduates, graduates, and teachers. The caption of the first article not only has a flick at current fiction; it recalls a profoundly significant remark of Mandell Creighton's that. "After we have got rid of the ape and the tiger we shall have to dispose of the donkey, a much more intractable animal." It is reassuring to find the Liberal Club trying to put spirit and glorified common sense into the head of this domestic brute. The burden...
Telegram received. Story absolute fiction. His Majesty had no communication whatever from Feldmarschall Hindenburg respecting his candidacy. . . . His Majesty's information about presidential campaign in Germany solely derived from German and foreign press. His Majesty in no communication with anybody belonging to the actual political circles in Germany or with party leaders. His Majesty once and for all has made it his principle not to interfere in internal affairs in Germany as long as he resides in Doorn. By his Imperial Majesty's orders Col. V. Kliest acting chief of household...
...ever-active New York World, last week, announced proudly "a new literary achievement." This feat amounted to nothing less than inducing the fiction editors of 16 U. S. magazines each to select that short story which he felt to be the best his magazine had published in 1924. Assembled at a luncheon given by the World, the editors had been told that, by definition, they were the most competent judges of short stories in the U. S.; hence a collection of tales selected by them would be the most authoritative volume of "best stories of 1924" conceivable. Enthusiastically the editors...