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...Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65 (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr)? Cleone Knox ($2.50). A mettlesome Irish nymph's intimacies...
...clear that as she has conceived, so shall she bear. No fair telling the end, shocking though it is; Miss Macfadyen has devised with restraint worthy of emulation. She handles substance as deftly as shadow and abides by Rule 1 for horror-writers?"The brighter the sun, the blacker the shade...
...DIARY OF A YOUNG LADY OF FASHION IN THE YEAR 1764-65.Cleone Knox (Edited by Alexander Blacker Kerr) Appleton ($2.50). The mettlesome Irish nymph of these confessions reveals herself teetering a-tiptoe upon the springboard of chastity in a day when only a very slight push was required to set a young thing splashing for dear life. Her papa removes her from the bold and importunate proximity of her enamored kinsman, David Ancaster, who has literally essayed to climb into her boudoir. In London and on the continent she finds gallantry galore, some of it quite as much to her taste...
...that is occasionally revealed or the peculiar intimacy of the author with human mental processes and physical passions. Several of them may truthfully be accused of realism; but on the whole they are far from that; when the author sees the worst, which is not seldom, he paints it blacker than actuality could conceivably be; when he looks at the beautiful side of life he becomes entangled in a symbolism and altogether unrealism which is difficult to follow...
...wealthy American business man: In the first act Archie Carr (Joseph Larocque Jr. '23) is accepted by the beautiful Evangeline (W. J. Banes '22), daughter of Burroughts, but throught the inadvertent meddling of Clive (Huntington Brown '22), a semi-insane English friend of the Burroughs family, the blacker side of Carr's past is revealed and he is ejected from the house party...