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Writing in the first flush of excitement, a reporter apparently can secure effects comparable to these of Poe's compendium of sudden death. Thus crime presents an attractive exterior quite concealing the sordidness beneath...
...formula of mystery is known to everyone. From the boy who tingles at the mention of murder to those rogues of the book world who are weary of the sameness of sudden death, the novel involving crime and courtship, homicide, and happiness, is familiar. Since its plot departs from this head-scratching standard set up by the writers of dectective fiction. "The Blind Goddess" may amuse even experienced cynics Instead of attempting to mystify, the amiable author has Richard Devens, a rich contractor, accidentally shot by Daniel Shay, his friend and business associate, before the eyes of the reader. This...
...book in which plot matters not a whit and conversation, behavior and obiter dicta are everything. The first is stilted, the second unreal-having breakfasted, these upper-class Brit-ishers "wiped their lips and put down their napkins and blew their noses"-and the third consists largely in sudden aimless excursions into geology, botany, anthropology, astronomy...
This progress, in education augurs well for a balanced development. Rapid economic advance can only be assimilated to culture by concurrent educative progress. The sudden advent of material prosperity could easily have effected a distorted sense of values and hence a narrowness of life. But the South can yet reconcile her new materialism with the old culture, if the present forward program of education is continued...
Like all inspired prophets, Uldine's pulpit propensities originated from a spiritual awakening. "An expert child dancer at eleven", to quote her own middest words, a chance visit to a revival meeting "caused something all of a sudden to happen inside her." After she had thus perceived the hollowness of mundane life and renounced it, her debut in her new role was dramatic. Suddenly appearing in a railway yard at lunch hour, she began to preach to the workers. One o'clock came but no whistle blew. Uldine's words had held all the workers enthralled. Out stalked an angry...