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...characters in "Star Dust" are real people for Miss Hurst has a way of pointing out the essential things of there make-up and with broad stroke can quickly conjure up a picture of person and personality that lives. Lilly herself--the reader can feel all her emotions, sympathizes with her; her mather, dear bossy old soul, whose religion is housekeeping, and her lovable and gentle old father, who make a bit of money in spite of himself out of the war. Her husband, the tupication of the respect able business and fireside homebody. The scores of people Lilly comes...
...only minor factory in determining the success of failure of book in the eyes of that august body, the reading public. All of the products of the present school of realism, for example, are plainly stamped either in fact or in effect with whom such statement as: "Come now, reader, take a look at the Middle Class. Here is a problem for you. Something must be done about this." And the reader feels always the weight of a Problem bearing down upon him as he reads...
...final choice is as wise, as it must have been, difficult. "Each in His Generation", by Maxwell Stretchers Burt, published first in Scribbler's Magazine, is undoubtedly and understanding depiction of real people, one that grasps the attention of the reader in sprite of himself. "Contact" by Frances Noyes Hart less certainly deserves its high rating, but, at the same time, the motive that actuated its selection, is clear. It is a story of the spiritualistic outgrowth of the war, highly imaginative, but more than slightly difficult to understand...
...novel by the author of Peter Jameson which takes the reader to the enchanted land of Indo China, where lives a lost French colony...
...undergraduate publication" the burlesque is not too obvious, in fact June Dandelions, the opening story, might almost have appeared between the authentic buff covers of the Back Bay Monthly. There is the same haunting sense of fatality and say-it-with-flowers motif, the same flattering intimation that the reader can sense the emotional power of the female character without being told the tiresome details...