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CHEAT-THE-BOYS?Eden Phillpotts? Macmillan ($2.25). There were two women in Warner Lidgate's life : Betsy Neck, whom he should have loved; Gilyan Neck, whom he did. "Cheat-the-Boys" is the endearing nickname of Gilyan, who tosses the hearts of the youth of Devonshire about in a manner more piquant than kindly. Gilyan meant well by Warner, but the strings of their amours only became the more evolved, despite the timely arrival of Harold Lidstone, cousin from the city. Sunshine, ample-blossoms, cider, a deft and graceful style, carry the docile reader through unhurried pages of reflective charm...
...older sister, she is a Russian immigrant in New York who rises to the brilliant dignity of a star in the local theatrical firmament and marries into a Mayflower family. All this under the pretense that she is a princess. Discarding the black wig and the tragedy manner, she again arrives in New York? this time as her younger sister? wide-eyed and penniless. On the same boat is an oily anarchist who discovers the interlocking relationships, gets them all together in an East Side furnished room for a good fight...
...sooner heard than it was welcomed by the Church and taken up into its creed. It has seemed to all successive generations that the belief in the incarnation was so congruous with belief in the Virgin birth that the former could hardly have taken place in any other manner. It has also seemed that the birth of the New Man must have involved something discontinuous as well as something continuous with the old sinful humanity. . . . In fact, men have not in fact believed in the incarnation (with very few exceptions) who disbelieved the Virgin birth...
...this college flocked the sons of the rich, seeking the Harvard manner, the Harvard polish, and the Harvard voice...
...backed by no experimental evidence whatever; the treatise is purely philosophical and deductive, reminding one of the works of the Phlogistonists of the sixteenth century, but based even more upon unproven postulates. Mr. Page's utter disregard for the scientific distinction between hypothesis, theory, and law, and his garbled manner of exposition detract from the philosophical as well as from the scientific value of his work...