Word: blindes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention of murder to those rogues of the book world who are weary of the sameness of sudden death, the novel involving crime and courtship, homicide, and happiness, is familiar. Since its plot departs from this head-scratching standard set up by the writers of dectective fiction. "The Blind Goddess" may amuse even experienced cynics Instead of attempting to mystify, the amiable author has Richard Devens, a rich contractor, accidentally shot by Daniel Shay, his friend and business associate, before the eyes of the reader. This subtle flattery is not unappreciated by one accustomed to being hood-winked until...
Compared with contemporary novels of similar type. "The Blind Goddess" stands well above the average. Judged by the standards Mr. Train sets himself in some chapters, the story is a disappointment. It seems that the love of women ruins books as well as men. But the people who have become accustomed to the concluding closeups of unreal worlds are not disappointed. For the last paragraph submerges with lotus-like caresses any surviving trace of thought-provoking material...
...worth and will always find it enlightening and, what is still better, can safely take it home and let his wife and 15-year-old daughter read it. TIME'S English is superb, unequaled, to the point; its humor wholesome, and its editors are not color blind - they don't see red. If every European country published one or two magazines to equal TIME, conditions throughout the world would improve and much more would be accomplished in bringing about peace, understanding and good will among nations than all the old world diplomats have done...
Vote. Meanwhile the Premier and Deputies waxed apoplectic in defending or denouncing M. Malvy. M. Briand's purpose was to bait Malvy's detractors (on the Right) into goading Malvy's adherents (on the Left) into a blind fury, in which they would vote solidly for the Government when the Premier should make a "vote of confidence" out of the Right's demand that Malvy be ousted. The astute M. Briand succeeded. He rolled up a vote...
Arthur Train's book is The Blind Goddess (Scribner's). Kathleen Norris has written this time about English folk, in The Black Flemings (Doubleday, Page). Archibald Marshall collaborated with H. A. Vachell on Mote House Mystery (Dodd, Mead). Patricia Wentworth's latest is The Dower House Mystery (Small, Maynard...