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...startling ideas. It is a description of a Harvard's man's attempt to conjure up a suitable plot for a story. Whether he succeeds or not is left for the reader to judge. A human being with such a prolific imagination would have the making of a Rider Haggard. The story is very brightly and interestingly told and has the merit of singular originality...
...Haggard's best novel has had a curious experience in an English public library. "King Solomon's Mines" is placed among the works on mineralogy...
...much wisdom. Nobody seems to know where to look for the books, and the poor library boy doesn't wear the hale and hearty look of our little red-haired friend. Sent out after a book at 12 on Monday, he arrives panting, fagged out, pale and haggard at 11.45 on Tuesday...
...secret mystery; but my wildest conjectures resulted in no inkling of the truth. Indeed, I have heard it whispered that there were those who remotely connected ME with his disappearance; but the rumor did not reach my ears to disturb me then. Besides, I do not doubt but my haggard and harassed appearance during these terrible days may not unjustly have given rise to some such indistinct suspicion. Be that as it may, here is the fact. I never saw Stephen Maymore again...
These inconveniences and discomforts contributed in a great measure towards making most of the Crew haggard and worn by the time the day for the race came. The present captain of the Crew was unwilling to ask his men to undergo a year of hard and careful training, and then to go to New London in a physically fine condition, and impair their chances by quartering them in a house such as Harvard occupied in 1880. An earnest effort was made to get suitable quarters already built. This having failed, the matter was laid before the New London local committee...