Word: axioms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nothing is worth reading unless it is true. That is an axiom that applies to fiction as well as fact. Mr. Sabatini, in his latest volume of "The Historical Nights' Entertainment" has recognized one phase of this axiom. In his preface he says, "I set out again with the same ambitious aim of adhering scrupulously in every instance to actual recorded facts," and he notes a few trivial deviations from the facts of the incidents he depicts. But while he has been meticulous in his plots, he has deviated so far from the truth in his manner of presentation that...