Word: fictions
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...quite all the globe has become humdrum yet. While reviewers are declaring that O'Brien's pictures of South Sea glamour are mere imaginative fiction, and while Cruises of the Kawa are making them, seem ridiculous, stories like this are unconsciously being enacted to prove the case for romance. Stevenson and Richard Harding Davis had nothing more improbable to recount, and their best efforts failed to give the touch of credibility which is carried in a newspaper paragraph like this. As long as there are still truths stranger than fiction, there is hope for the survival of the "dime novel...
...regenerated, though even the strong forces of pure love are enable to cure her consumption. Dumas has chosen as his heroine the lineal descendant of Manon Lescaut and Marion Delorme. And the literary children of Marguerite, purged in the same manner, are still giving the census takers of fiction and drama a puzzling job, "La Dame Aux Camelias" is a play written in youth, written at white heat, and without the customary Dumas-fils thesis or moral. It may show in some subtle manner that a woman can not live down her past. But much more obviously it does...
...such elaborate fiction as this, the practically nonexistent dangers of working with the Grenfell Mission in Labrador are given forbidding importance; and it is to the end that some of these false notions may be dispelled that I submit this communication. EDWIN K. MERRILL '24 November...
...raise his super structure. He very seldom gets far enough even to consider adding a roof. The natural question arises: what is the good of a house founded upon a rock, if there is no thatch of sufficient thickness to keep out the rains and the flood of contemporary fiction...
...Tales of the Jazz Age" is a compilation of short stories--some better, some worse, but all indifferent--previously published as magazine fiction. It is a volume tendered primarily into the "hands of those who read as they run and run as they read". And this statement by the author sums up the whole proposition very neatly, in that the book is imbued with the "running" fever; the author runs--jazzily, rejoicing in his own self-confessed naughtiness; and the reader runs likewise--mainly in aimless, frantic circles! Until finally both author and reader are hopelessly weary of themselves...