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Occasionally he packs his grip, walks to the depot (or rides in his battered 1914 model) and goes to Europe for as long or as short as he likes. But mostly he stays near the farmland where he was bred, buys his clothes at the local emporium...
Although one race has been run off and the Bluenose has tightened Canada's grip by one notch on the trophy, the time has not yet arrived for the shouting. While doubting the correctness of the Columbia's reported qualifications, the Canadian boat consented to race--but on a kind of "heads I win, tails you lose" basis. If the Columbia happens to win the next two races and, consequently the series, she will then have to be remeasured under the stony glances of the Canadians. Needless to say the enthusiasm of a competitor who is not certain of getting...
...away from humor determinedly to write serious novels. Yet, principally, he is a lover of a good story. He will tell you the complicated plot of one of his yarns with the greatest relish. He enjoys the working out of detail; but he enjoys most of all the underlying grip which any good story must possess. No amount of artistry can make a story if it has not an emotional basis. There is a good vulgar word which describes the quality of which I am speaking. Wallace Irwin has it in his writing, so too have Harold Bell Wright, Joseph...
Europe is in the grip of wintry weather. At the end of the Paris season, when every one usually leaves the capital for the seaside in order to escape the heat, Parisiens are to be found dressed in topcoats and mufflers and Parisiennes are none too warm in furs...
WITHIN THESE WALLS?Rupert Hughes?Harper ($2.00) Another stab at the Great American Novel. Another history of the adventures and misadventures of an American family from 1832, when New York was in the grip of the black cholera, to times fairly contemporaneous. But the RoBards had even more than the usual fictional American family's share of trouble. Jealousy, murder, seductions, secret marriages?they took a fling at them all, but always managed to keep up appearances pretty well, on the whole. There is much interesting information on the growth and development of New York City and its water-system?...