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...Jews," ordered his tenants to wear a fez with a tassel as Livery of the Manor. But Hogarth refused, and Hogarth's sister rejected Frankl's amorous advances. Things took place-Hogarth flogged Frankl; Hogarth was convicted, falsely, of murder; Hogarth was sent to Colmoor prison. Rebekah Frankl, beautiful, barbaric, with earrings as big as hoops, flung a red flower with a black heart of passion to Hogarth on his conviction...
Hogarth, having solved the problem of the world's misery, decided that he was justified in leaving prison to set things right. Blasting the great bell of Colmoor with lightning from heaven, he escaped astride of its clapper when it was sent for repairs. The ship bearing the bell and Hogarth was wrecked, and he was cast up on the Cornish coast...
...skilled dispenser of cleverness to the sophisticates becomes excessively painstaking and elaborately voluble in a set of six not particularly short short stories. They are exhaustive studies in human nature. Uncle Spencer enlarges upon the love of an elderly Englishman for a cockney male impersonator in a German internment prison. Little Mexican tells about a romantic Italian Count and the thwarted life of his son. Hubert and Minnie relates the abortive misconduct of an unwilling young man and a willing young woman. Fard, short and not without poignancy, is no more than a snapshot of an overworked chambermaid...
...reports of the building of a more airy, lighter prison at Joliet are quite in accord with modern humanitarian impulses, but a more fundamental progress is revealed by news items in Massachusetts papers. All the county jails are to be visited by psychiatrists and social workers who will investigate the mental conditions of the prisoners. Yet a mere report will accomplish little...
...peace and order. The clinics which have been established in connection with police courts in many of the more progressive cities are a promising first step. But before even such a step can be generally taken public opinion must discard the notions which have survived since the days of prison ships and quarry dungeons...