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...noble Nordic of Richard Harding Davis fame who tamed wild generals and won beautiful women in the hot Spanish southland has long since passes the sceptre of popular favor to that delicate product of modern novelists: the hero who analyzes and records his "complexes." Yet when this newer type becomes a trifle boring the exaggerated romances of Davis still retain some of their old charm; and when one of his adventurers actually appears on the crowded walls of lower Manhattan the mostest jaded Broadwayite is tempted to look. So with "Tex" O'Reilly...
...foresee in this principle, which places all importance upon training, the seeds of revolution in college methods. If young Oswald of the future would become a poet, he will enter college for a four-year treatment in courses especially chosen for the making of that peculiar product. At graduation the college will turn him loose on the world labeled "poet", with a written guarantee of so many sonnets an hour or money back. Such a plan has all the advantages of simplicity and certainty which present methods so signally lack...
Annual inventories have for the time being been the main product of industry. Presently these figures will be published, along with other items on the balance-sheet; and speculators will have a chance to see if their present attitude is right or wrong...
...result has been to put car exhibitors in an unhappy frame of mind. They have for years had only to demonstrate the superior quality of their product to sell it. Now they are expected to have a quality product and to sell it cheap. The business, after being a runaway affair, has now become grimly competitive. Big sales mean quantity output, lower costs and a chance for a profit. Small sales mean high unit costs and either no profit or a loss in operation. For small craft, the water is getting rather rough...
...thing that Mr. Paine could understand least in the habits of some of the new writers was their ability to put things together in such a slapdash fashion. For him, it is necessary to gather material, to digest it, to think about the finished product as a whole. To write a biography is the work of several years, not of a few weeks. He works in the mornings, or walks, or plays pool with the Editor of St. Nicholas: he considers pool his exercise. His reading is done before he sleeps at night and early in the morning. Driving...