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...Author. Mr. Oppenheim modestly disclaims credit for his so popular work and pretends that he does not aim to please. He says: "I do not know how a novel will develop when I begin it. I get a vision of about two good characters???the man, he's the main thing, and the woman, very secondary. These two elements, together with my first chapter, constitute my preparation. Then I live with my characters for a while?eat with them, walk with them, play golf with them. Finally they begin to act according to their own wills; then I let them...
...major interests in this volume lies in Mr. Train's fleeting sketches of subordinate characters??? old Uncle Shiras; Doctor Dominick, "the most valuable man in the world;" Degoutet, outspoken sculptor. Most of them may be recognized as more or less thinly veiled snapshots from real life.* All of them are, it must be confessed, more interesting than the comparatively insignificant hero and heroine...