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SPANISH BAYONET?Stephen Vincent Benet?Doran ($2). It is characteristic of Author Benet that the pre-Revolutionary Floridian of his tale is an indigo-planter and breeder of cochineal bugs, not a farmer of yams or tobacco; that his name is Gentian, not Brown or Black; that he is not so much a retired army surgeon with impeccable manners and exquisite vintages, as a mage of the sinister arts, whose oval study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned...