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...entered the E. B. Crocker Art Gallery at Sacramento, Cal., lifted from its gold frame Guido Reni's Entombment of Christ, and escaped. A craving for a forbidden smoke had lured the curator to an upper gallery; no trace of the thieves remained when a janitor discovered the theft...
...That the immigration quota law sometimes makes it necessary to detain cabin as well as steerage passengers, but there are generally less than 100 British subjects under detention, very few of whom are cabin passengers. As for cages, wire partitions are placed in the rooms to prevent theft and assault...
...that the best sort of a novel of detectives and murder should have no love interest, but in this case it seems little out of place, and indeed, with the surprising tensity of the rest, some diversion is necessary. With two murders, two or three attempted murders, forgery and theft, much is needed to relieve the strain. The humor, such as it is, however, might better have been left out entirely...
...have no quarrel with our neighbor on Mt. Auburn street. He goes his way and we follow plodding. Any attempt on our part to catch him or his humor, like a projected theft of Thor's thunder,-could hope for no higher fate than drowning in the gloomy dep hs of our own ink-horn. Besides to be funnier than Lampy one must be intensely serious and come out early and often,-in many extras,-and we cannot hope to compete with the "Telegram...
Perhaps there is another way, besides literary theft, to account for the coincidences. The scientists may continue their studies, and perhaps uncover a new Ossian scandal; but meanwhile it is safe to make what conjectures our imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable...