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...love, adventure and the tomb of Dimitrino the First. His romance with Lady Sarah Wimpole burns like an incandescent lamp. Lions, sheiks and whiffle-hens bar his way, and after quite unbelievable exploits he is left alone with his memories. A take-off on the popular Sheik brand of fiction, adequately mirth-provoking though not quite so good as The Cruise of the Kawa...
...great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only in fiction, while today such a staid and sober journal as the "New York Times" prints with great solemnity Mr. Schermann's revelations as to the mysterious "Marjorie...
...Headers of the cheaper fiction magazines are aware that there has been in the market for some time a system of learning piano-playing by placing over the keys a paper diagram marked with the names of the keys. " Learn to play the piano in a week! Be popular and surprise your friends ! " In this way, though, the player has to skip from one interval to another as on the keyboard itself, while with the Bubble Piano he strikes one key after another in regular succession...
...steel and iron workers, both masters and men, pass through the pages of Caret Garrett's The Cinder Buggy. But in spite of these and the vast number of semi-humorous or mechanically conventional "sport stories" or "labor stories" in our popular magazines?a good deal of modern American fiction seems to deal with a class of characters who form a very small minority of the population...
Margery's grandparents were publishers and her parents writers of fiction, so, it was as natural for the little girl to sit down and "write a story" as for a shopkeeper's child to play to keeping shop. The philosophy of art and the technical problems of serial fiction were commonplaces of the domestic atmosphere. But when a young lady of eighteen writes a novel in four months and calmly asserts that it came to her out of the air, communicated by so-called automatic writing, the average grownup hesitates, comments McFee. Yet if one knows, the road from Colchester...