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...title Author Wescott implies that he is finished with his native haunts as literary copy it is just as well, since Wisconsin appears to him in unrelieved grey???a monotone of ugliness. And so do the people. Not a one of them has charm or gentleness or pleasant impulses; and the thoughts of each, tortuously analyzed, hark back to a frustration or forward with resignation and despair. Typical in the collection of stories are the drab blunderings of Amelia and her loutish husband ("The Runaways") who weary of their sterile farm, and burn the house for the insurance. Too scatter...
...GILBERT, His LIFE AND LETTERS? Sidney Dark and Rowland Grey???Doran...
WANDERER OF THE WASTE LAND? Zane Grey???Harper ($2.00). Mr. Grey thinks this his "most mature and finished work." It is another tale of gunplay and men who are unquestionably men. The hero shoots his brother, almost dies of thirst, kills a man barehanded, engages in unsuccessful battle with a rattlesnake. "Death Valley", that California waste of bleached bones and sunstroke, is the locality chosen by one of the unpleasanter characters in which to frighten his wife to death...
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