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...manner too in which they are spoken of, the suggestive little touches of style, are much the same. Nevertheless the story does not lose much even though it invites comparison with work of such acknowledged excellence. The conversation is well done, the boy is true to life, and the plot, though very improbable, is one of those that have pleased men ever since time began...
...Dance on the Susquehanna," by W. D. Howe is a pretty good sketch, especially when one takes into account the fact that almost all the plot is implied rather than expressed. The three most important events of the incident are told, very briefly, yet quite vividly, and there are a few words of introduction and conclusion. That is all, yet the plot is entirely clear...
...fifth poem has also been ascribed to him, but there is no real proof that it is his. The date of the poem is probably about the sixties or seventies of the 14th century. The poem is superior to any other of its kind in the English language. The plot is clear and the action is well managed. There is no padding. The great theme of all four of the author's poems is cleanness, appearing in "Gawain and the Green Knight," in Gawain's resistance to the temptations of the knight's wife...
...labor, and about eight pages of fiction. They would probably have been still more surprised if they had been told what the character of this fiction would be; that there would be four stories, of very different lengths, and on very different subjects, but all alike in that their plot and the method followed in working them out, would be very dramatic in all their essential - that is, that the four authors of these four stories would depend, each in his own way, on the vividness with which he could narrate a combination of incident which seemed...
...Tiens ta Foi" is carefully written and the plot is well sustained. There is just a sufficient touch of pathos to make it interesting and yet not cloy...