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...ball was carried back to mid-field where its sojourn was but short. After a few preliminary plays, Merrill, who had gone in in place of Jenkins, broke loose and with almost perfect interference, carried the hall 45 yards for a second touchdown. Mosely, who in the quick succession of quarterbacks, had replaced McGlone, attempted the goal from the field but kicked wild...
...language, which is an astonishingly slight handicap throughout, prevents any understanding of the dialogue, but the action to so vivid and the pantomime so unmistakable that one's appreciation becomes shockingly ribald. Besides, there is the beautiful duet called "Silence", the exquisite scenic effect of the "See-Saw" and perfect artistry of the "Minuet", and perhaps there are now one or two of the sixteen which have not been touched. But after all; too much cannot be said of the merit of these Russians; they are distinctive, they are refreshing, and in America, they are unique...
...Significance. This brief novel, told with perfect simplicity and skill, creates at least three characters as living as any in our fiction, and summons up a ghost-the ghost, the soul, of an entire period in our national life-when the West was the West of the railroad kings. It establishes Miss Cather firmly as among the very first of our novelists...
...Critics. Fanny Butcher in the Chicago Daily Tribune: " A delicate, lovely, fragile piece of literature . . . that very rare thing, a perfect thing in parvo...
...Bookman: "More novelette than novel, but it is almost perfect of its kind...