Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, for which Britons laid down many a clutch of seven shillings. This year the shillings are rattling down again because Novelist Owen, a tall man who might pass for a giant, has written The Giant of Oldborne.? As a yardstick to current British taste in fiction the book will stand branding with the cliche "important...
Such novels are bound to be in the nature of an anticlimax. Who, in an earlier day, would have been interested in the further triumphs of Frank Merriwell or the incredible Brown after they left New Haven and Cambridge? All collegiate heroes of fiction draw the public interest because they are supposed to throw the spotlight on what goes on, and how, behind the academic walls. It is the wise author who lets his dashing young rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave...
...FICTION...
...cases cited in Judge Lindsey's article read just like contemporary fiction-young people desirous of living together, and doing so, but unable to live out the economic and psychological implications of the present marriage code. "Fred" and "Inez," minors, thinking they had obtained an annulment of their marriage, secretly and joyously began living together again. "Katherine" and "George" were unable to stay in love when married since they took for granted they must impose restrictions upon each other-"marital jealousy being, as we all know, a cardinal virtue in our present marriage code though jealousy is demonstrably...
...volumes for review from among the most widely advertised books of the month. A college public, however, would be the first to realize this a specious device. On the other hand, it can be assumed that the student is interested chiefly in a single type of writing, say fiction, verse, or political discussion or that he is of a characteristic turn of mind and will find anything philosophical or else colorful or perhaps sententious, eminently to his taste. It will at once be recognized that each of these suppositions compounds truth and error. Yet one or another of them...