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...Ives, and using the knowledge of the duel as a weapon, helps to make the story interesting. St. Ives goes back to see his Flora and is pursued by the cousin and the police. As the meshes are closing around him, he makes his escape to France in a balloon, clears himself and all ends happily, as is fitting in such a romance...
...book pretends only to amuse and it does not fail to do this. The characters are unique and the situations anything but commonplace. The last chapters are written by Mr. Quiller-Couch, after Stevenson's notes, and the stirring adventure of the balloon escape is well managed...
...Rugby; but still we call them "universities." It is a new example of the old fable of the frog and the ox. The frog envied the size of the ox, and though that by puffing himself full of air he might become his equal. And so we see balloon-like universities springing up around us on all sides with no foundation but a little money and a big name...
...Simmonds has made another attempt to cross the channel in a balloon...
Commander John P. Cheyne, an Arctic explorer, arrived in Boston yesterday. He is soliciting aid for his scheme to reach the North Pole by balloon...