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...peculiarly happy mixture of the simplicity, honesty and quiet humor indigenous to the countryborn, with a style so facile and fluent as to put the majority of his elders to shame. At times, his descriptions are startingly effective. The "trail drive" becomes an actual experience for the reader, and when the last page is regretfully turned, one's mind travels back o episodes which the author has left indelibly on one's memory. There is nothing sensational or cheap in Mr. Blake's story; he doesn't have to resuscitate bands of wild Indians or buffalo to make his reader...
Paris art connoisseurs believe the late Ambassador Herrick was mistaken. He occupied the house of the Due de Broglie, whose brother owned many a Chabas painting of bathing nudes but not September Morn. But TIME is indebted to Subscriber Church and to an anonymous TIME-reader for helping pick up September Morn's trail which previously stopped dead at Moscow. Thither the painting had been taken by Leon Mantacheff, who bought it in 1912 for 50,000 francs. After the Russian Revolution it mysteriously disappeared. TIME'S informant reported that as recently as 1929 he had seen September...
...material is present for several exciting novels and a monograph on prison reform but unfortunately the two various themes are so interwoven in this biography of the pioneer prison reformer that it is all much time wasted by the reader who wants to carry away any definite impressions...
...this "made inevitable his election to the Hasty Pudding Club, the college dramatic society that was the goal of all undergraduate Thespians." This sort of slush continues throughout the volume but after a hundred pages the reader starts on the account of his work as liberal politician and prison administrator...
After page 150, the book becomes interesting, and after 250 pages have been covered, the reader enters the relevant part of the discussion on prisons which gives the book its only claim to value. The narrative becomes animated and gives the impression that the writer knows what he is talking about without being deceived by the worship of years. The Mutual Welfare League of Auburn and Sing Sing is discussed in a manner interesting to all who have considered the problems of prison administration either from a governmental or sociological view...