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...found on one of his trips to the city. It is to be regretted that Mr. Williams did not lay more emphasis on his delineation of Huldy, for the brief strokes with which he has painted her arouse great interest and are executed with an apparently unconscious brilliancy. The reader gets a brief glance at a woman with sleepy eyes who would "rather be wanted than needed". Who "was vicious, beyond doubt; yet--there were not the marks of vice upon her, but rather of abounding life and deep undisciplined vitality...
...plays a waiting game while the troublous forces which Huldy's arrival have not in motion work themselves out. She lives with Marm Pierce who speaks the philosophy of the rural community and dispenses cures and "yarbs." The atmosphere of the lazy, rural community is created easily: Sometimes the reader is almost irritated by the deliberate simplicity with which Mr. Williams has written his story...
...does not aim at any particular effect. Writing casually, the author creates his atmosphere, sketches in his characters, works them into a simple plot that can include his murder mystery denouncement and thus aims to strike upon at least one element that will held the interest of the average reader...
...reader expects relief from a surrounding of brothels, insane asylums, and disease when Bardamn arrives on Broadway, New York, disappointment is sure to be profound. Broadway is promptly described as "a running sore." The tip-off is complete when, after one or two deprecative observations on what Americans are proud to call "The Main Stem," Bardamn pops into a public toilet. Now there is a subject for you! The author gives it as many pages as Broadway itself...
...After the reader had been given an account of the various honors which had been bestowed upon this man during the spring we were told that he had died late in the winter...