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Reason: it leads the reader to believe that dog races, slot machines, and lotteries are gambling devices of the same rank in respect. This is not true...
...Wolf! Wolf!" to a semi-attentive public. Their combined clamor is so deafening that it is hard to tell when one of them is really in earnest. Consequently, in those blue moons when they have something to shout about, a sharp-toothed masterpiece may slip undetected into the gentle reader's fold, cause much silent havoc before the alarm is given. Though Publisher Dutton has sounded no extra-special warning, Solal is such a masterpiece-in-sheep's-clothing. Wolf would be a misnomer: nothing so leonine has come down the pike in many a blue moon...
...meticulously colorful background. A Calendar of Sin made No. 3 of her U. S. historical series. Eva Gay is not quite so big (only 799 pages), but its figures are few, its background so subdued that attention is glaringly focused on the three main characters. Many a wearied reader will not be attentive to the bitter...
...article by Stanley Walker, describing the policemen in New York, deserves attention because of the naivete of the author. According to him some policemen in the overpopulated city are dishonest; some are gentlemen, most are human. Yet the disappointment which the reader hay have, having read this, will be lost in a maelstrom of laughter after completing a letter by someone who was insulted because a freshman at Yale said that his college has produced few great men in this century. This someone has written a biting invective on the lack of merits of Harvard graduates. Although it is slightly...
Though he eschews Latin-rooted words, clings to Anglo-Saxonisms almost as tightly as William Morris did, Author Linklater manages to give his bare and lusty chronicle an authentic primitive manner without ever putting the reader to sleep. Though his tale is at times reminiscent of the over-factual Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it lifts towards the end to a narrative as stripped and swift as a Viking long ship with the oars going all together...