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...GREATEST PAGES OF CHARLES DICKENS???Stephen Leacock?Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Chronological anthology arranged by an avid Dickensian for other Dickensians...
...Dickens???The Cricket on the Hearth (manuscript...
...Charles Dickens???The Cricket on the Hearth and The Christmas Carol...
...GARDEN OF MEMORY?the late Kate Douglas Wiggin?Houghton Mifflin ($5.00). The autobiography of the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The story of an energetic and joyous life?childhood in a small New England hamlet?a meeting with Charles Dickens???girlhood in California?the difficult, unsparing task of establishing the first free kindergartens on the Pacific Coast? literary celebrity?travel?adventures of mind and body. One wonders, timidly, while reading, how Mrs. Riggs ever found time, in a life much interrupted by illness, to do and see so much, and to tell of it with such charm...
...story must possess. No amount of artistry can make a story if it has not an emotional basis. There is a good vulgar word which describes the quality of which I am speaking. Wallace Irwin has it in his writing, so too have Harold Bell Wright, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens??? and the word is guts! You may not like it?but I can think of no other word which so completely expresses what I mean...
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