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...Ghost Story" is a short tale, concisely and clearly told. The plot is well sustained and the general effect is good...
This number is also made notable by a posthumous story by Walcott Bolestier, who is the co-author with Mr. Kipling of "The Naulahka," "Reffey" is novel in plot and situation, the principal characters being a conductor on a far Western railroad, and two young women, one the manager of an eating-house, and the other a telegraph operator. Mr. Bolestier's friends consider this story a justification of the high hopes that were entertained for the future of this brilliant writer...
...number, a sketch, entitled "As It is Done Now," might be selected as, on the whole, the most artistic piece of work. This, as all of the productions of its author's have been, is characterized by a simple vigor of expression, a boldness in conception of plot, and an excellent sense of the fitness of things. Mr. Flandrau excels rather in vivid descriptions than in character delineations, and in the sketch under discussion the descriptive portions are the best parts, for neither the hero nor the heroine of the sketch stand out very clearly and the little conversation that...
...Lawyer's Story" is a reminiscence of certain out-of-the-way events in which a notorious highwayman forms the central figure. There is a lack of unity about the whole and the climax is weak. With the events which the author describes, the plot should be much stronger than...
...Barren Achievement" is an oddly onceived story of a people in Holland who gave their ideas into the keeping of an old man, and upon his death, were left a "sad, idealess people." The language of the tale is good, but the whole plot strikes us as unnatural...