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...Lady's daughter Julia. Fuller's original songs about the crime that may or may not be committed are so thoroughly entertaining that Sable's dangling at the end of Lady Beatrice's necklaces becomes nothing less than enjoyable and Softly Stealing a cause not for anguish but for delight...
...entertainment than the story of the killing of a human being. Who among the connoisseurs of real-life homicide could resist a title like Victorian Murderesses'? Never mind that some, having been French, were not quite Victorian, and others, having been acquitted, were not exactly murderesses. The real delight is that Historian Mary S. Hartman does more than reconstruct twelve famous trials. She has written a piece on the social history of 19th century women from an illuminating perspective: their favorite murders...
...gathered in front of the Union and everybody stretched for that magic glimpse. A solitary fire engine embellished in excitement came into view. It looked out of place in this rainyday afternoon grey, but who was I to brag? Supporting members of the Hasty Pudding mingled in costumed delight. The Harvard Band tooted about. Ballons bearing her name bubbled above the wet streets, ready-mades for the collector of inflated history. Just swell, swelling...
...lives-depended upon the weather, learned by experience how to read the signs that frequently presaged change. Sailors realized from early days the general wisdom of the poem "Sky red in the morning/ Is a sailor's sure warning/ Sky red at night/ Is the sailor's delight." Farmers observed that dandelions and other flowers closed when a storm was approaching and had a simple way of telling the temperature from the rate at which crickets chirp: count the number of times the insect chirps in 14 seconds and then...
Reeves describes this kind of thing with a New Yorker's kind of perverse delight, but after a few stories like that hinterlanders begin to feel both scared and bored. And the other parts of the book that deal with the machinations of Bob Strauss, Democratic National Chairman, or other political figures are pedestrian. One trouble with this book--the big trouble with it--is that most of this stuff has been reproted before. There's just not anything new that a faithful reader of The New York Times, or even Time or Newsweek, doesn't already know...