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AS a novel, Mr. Lincoln's most recent book is rather a disappointment. It is well enough done, but almost to the extent of being overdone, for the story has a tendency to lag. The atmosphere of the plot is so pronounced that the reader from the beginning gains a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARISTOCRATIC MISS BREWSTER. By Joseph C. Lincoln. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1927. $2.00 | 1/23/1928 | See Source »

There has crept into general usage recently . . . a form of punctuation . . . consisting of three dots . . . that give a specious appearance of dignity and importance to their literature . . . and are felt to enhance the impression that the writer strives to create . . . In advertising puffs . . . especially in advertising snowy linen . . . and beautiful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POINTS POINTLESS | 1/18/1928 | See Source »

Dress. The impression which the trip was calculated to create became evident in a small White House news item of last month. All was being arranged even to the incidental of what the newspapermen should wear. Such of "The Boys" as expected to attach themselves to the President's official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: To Cuba | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

However, to anyone who has finished a volume of Hardy, his death comes as something more than a news event. When one recalls the vivid and deep impression indelibly left upon the mind by his masterly novels and the awe and admiration felt for the author the loss becomes a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OLYMPIAN PASSES | 1/13/1928 | See Source »

There exists a general impression that this is the great age of the individual. It is not. As a matter of terminology if a person commits a conventional sin, he is asserting his individuality against hampering taboos. But really it is a time of joiners, of mass movements, productions, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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