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...Anon., I take it, is a faithful reader of the "Saturday Review," perhaps even that legendary figure, the Oldest Living Subscriber. From his letter, one would never think that he regularly perused those delightful chatter columns of Christopher Morley and P. Quercus which are distinguished features of the "Review." For he seems to be one of those unfortunate souls that are devoid of the sense of humor that characterizes the work of Messrs. Morley and Quercus...
...female. Death, so discussed, without the comic relief of idiotic foamings and writhings, is at best a trifle unpleasant. And one is bound to remark that whatever the director has neglected, in his enlightenment, on the one end, he has made up on the other. As if carelessly, the reader is introduced to, and comes to like each of the characters. It is a hard thing to keep eleven men separate in a story like this, where all are equipped alike, and where the stars are bound to shine. It is a difficulty which the director, for all his attention...
...story of Bonfils and Tammen" is the subtitle for "Timber Line"; that should serve to introduce it effectively to any American reader, for the name of Bonfils, if not that of Tammen, has been blatted to the four corners with almost the virulence which the man himself would have employed in scorching a commercial enemy. Bonfils and his "Denver Post" have been held up in magazines and less full-blooded papers as the dual climax of bawdy journalism; they have been ridiculed as cranks and denounced as blackmailers their saga has been amplified and coloured even beyond its own rich...
...nearly as anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus so that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side of the picture is between the covers: Bon blazes out his courage as he takes bullets from the gun of an enraged invader of the offices of the Post; the strange man's one apparent...
...intervals and followed long enough to make clear the peculiar problems of each, both in their relation to individual character and to the general pattern which was Paris in 1908. Always in the background is the "rumble of the distant drum", the cataclysm of 1914. Yet the reader is never made to feel that he is looking back; he is ever at the very wellhead of the deluge...