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Will Subscriber Epstein back Reader Roark against Subscriber Blake...
...Dirty cheats, editors. ME, constant reader. ME, the public. I want to be thrilled, tickled with tragedy. They rob me; steal the stuff my emotions eat for breakfast. Do you know who that is-Nathan S. Leopold...
...light upon the second part of the book with great relish. The author has conveniently, though perhaps not wisely, divided into two sections the story of his wanderings up the valley of the Dinder River into the foothills of the Abyssinian border. The first he uses to question the reader and himself on "Why do men do it?; the second to answer that question. Paris, we find, has its lures, but the call to "go somewhere," has also and the lures of the latter are apparently greater for we find ourselves wandering with the author through wild desert and dried...
...members of Boston's old literary circle sent their gentle brain children out for placid airings, last year whipped up its horses with a $10,000 prize for "the most interesting novel of any kind, sort or description," submitted by any writer, "whether born in London or Indianapolis." Readers looked for some tranquil, mildly effeminate tale, perhaps modeled on those of Edith Wharton. They were surprised on scanning the first installment of Jalna to discover a robust and brawny fiction, crowded with characters energetically alive, scampering into unexpected breaches of decorum. More than that, this book...
...Vagabond's chief aspiration is to suggest. If, by listing lectures on outer events which to him seem unusually insinuative and by an occasional comment on the lecturer's topic, he can incite any intellectual curiosity in his reader, his ambitions will have been fulfilled. The course meetings which he notes may prove worthless to the visitor as far as the accumulation of any concrete knowledge; taken alone they may be hopelessly complex or fruitlessly general. Should they arouse inquisitiveness concerning the particular subject under discussion, however, or any tangential treatment value may be measured only with reference to futurities...