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viciously dull as old Hector's," the reader...
...library continues to be one of the best equipped for the general reader. In the reading room a large number of daily newspapers from all sections of the country together with the leading magazines of the world are on file. Equipment for games includes billiard and pool tables, and card and chess rooms...
...Henry is reported missing, how Bascom comes home on leave, how the triangle is finally flattened out into a humdrum circle, may be left to the reader. Author Edmonds has studied his people, listened to their speech, and remembered what he has seen and heard. His minor characters, crotchety or crabbed, leave a more memorable impression than the more generally typical protagonists. The two figures of Pat and Leo, Dickensian country carpenters wandering inseparably through the story, are like Mutt & Jeff come true...
...school rationale. When Golspie's handsome daughter Lena appears she shows also that conscience does not run in the family, for she amuses herself at the expense of the lowly but amorous Turgis. Unable to see the fun, one night Turgis nearly strangles her, to his own and the reader's great surprise. For that evening he wallows in the melancholy of a murderer, and afterwards in (hat of a jobless man. Solace comes to him, however, in the unbeautiful Poppy Sellers, second-string stenographer...
...Many a reader of the Scripps-Howard liberal New York Telegram wondered what its editors thought of, what they would do about Colyumist Heywood Broun's Socialist candidacy for Congress (TIME, Aug. 11). Last week they learned from Editor Roy Wilson Howard: "We don't think much of it and we are going to do less...