Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief deficiency in the April Advocate is the lack of creditable fiction. In other respects, this is a well balanced number, reflecting the good taste of the editors and the sincerity of the contributors...
Under the stress of current events, at a time when the country is occupied with discussion over foreign policy and Presidential primaries, a marked diminution of interest in current literature is noticeable. While the reviews and political journals in the libraries are in constant use, the new fiction and literary magazines, as well as heavier books of lasting merit, are being neglected...
...care to peruse, but it does involve more than the ordinary subject matter such as is found in average short story magazines of the present day. The person who has never taught himself to hunt out, or con over the books of some of the mighty masters of fiction with their galaxy of robust old speech, and words and philosophy that men have come to venerate and love so much that now they are called classic, then has that individual done his mind and himself a grave injustice. He has denied himself the opportunity to cultivate his mind...
...successful novel to his long and creditale list. "Robin Linnet" besides being an easy and diveritng story of English country life among the "quiet rich," introduces in the person of its hero a living character, the charm of whose personality cannot but endear him to the most hardened of fiction hounds...
...Sabatini has forgotten that the manner of presentation can make fiction more true than fact, and fact more false than fiction. He has presented his series of short stories in a manner that will cause them to be forgotten before the printer's ink is dry on the pages. Meanwhile improbable novels with fictitious characters and silly plots will reserve rights of translation including the Scandinavian...