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...burst Joy's enraged father. "Aha, Wilson! The game is up!" roared Accountant John Stewart, 58, brandishing a horsewhip. Beside Father Stewart stood his wife, bearing a sturdy umbrella, plus Joy's younger sister and brother. Confronting the steamed-up Stewarts, Colin Wilson had good reason to blanch: not 15 miles away he had a wife and son. With no further pleasantries, Mrs. Stewart fell to pummeling Philosophy Collector Wilson with her weapon, while the others tried to drag Joy from the villain's premises. They screamed at Joy: "You will go to hell!" Their efforts were...
...Shewing-Up of Blanch Posnet is a languid Western yarn, a genre in which the writer proves himself very ill at ease. Shaw is no cowboy. Neither is his hero, it must be admitted: Blanco is a kicking cousin of Dick Dudgeon, a would-be Hotspur in Levis and a grizzly beard, whose poetic force is out of place amid long-jawed neighbors. Blanco's tale is simple. He steals a horse. After a few twists involving first a slut then the mother of a just-dead baby, he is set free. The whole situation seems rather tired...
...with an intense desire to restore the land to richness, came along. Joe is a living contradiction to the widespread-and wrong-explanation of U.S. farm productivity: the notion that the U.S. has "new" and naturally hyper-fertile soil. Joe successfully farms acres that would make a Polish peasant blanch with dismay. Yet he devoutly believes that his rocky slopes "can be made to grow good crops-just as good as the flat land, or maybe even better, with enough work. I'll make them grow everything they can, and I'll take care of them." Taking care...
Each of the ten imaginary nightmares in Russell's new collection is a cute little fantasy, as impish as it is artless. Each turns around a point of topical interest and displays a sense of humor which even Punch might blanch at. Samples...
...Game of Hearts: Harriette Wilson's Memoirs, edited by Leslie Blanch. A saucy, intimate peek at Regency London's beaux and belles from the boudoir of a celebrated courtesan (TIME, June...