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Like other Robinson narratives, Amaranth is a tale of moral issues. This time the scene is set in a shadowy country not unlike a New England intellectualization of Hell. It is the place to which men are condemned who inhabit "the wrong world"-preachers who should have been lawyers, businessmen who should have been artists. Principal figure is a mediocre painter who escaped from "the wrong world" by becoming a pump-manufacturer ("a spring-clean unimpeachable pump-builder"), then somehow relapsed. Saved from suicide and other tempting methods of flight by the mysterious figure of Amaranth, a symbolic embodiment...
...longer will the Black Muria screech around the corner of Brattle Street with its carloads of inebriates, no longer will the boys in blue climb the steps of the old red brick building on the corner, no longer will Colonel Apted's confreres inhabit Brattle square--gentlemen, pause in your labors to shed a tear for the vanishing past--the Brattle Street Police Station is shut...
...principally concerned because of the surprise and indignation the second fiction must occasion among the warriors of the Kilyan tribe, all of whom are, of course, faithful subscribers to TIME. If these savages come down from whatever wilds they may inhabit for the purpose of denying, with spears and war-clubs, that Nordhoff and myself are in any way affiliated with their tribe, our blood will be upon the heads of the united staff of TIME. And may you never be able to wash...
Readers of the first volume (TIME, June 5) will have only a slight advantage over newcomers. The 65 characters have grown to more than 100 but their relationships remain comparatively simple. In many cases they are still unaware that they inhabit the same city-book. Some of them: Jerphanion, the ambitious young student at the Normal College, whose friendship with the brilliant Jallez grows more intimate, is beginning to get used to Paris. Murderer Quinette, falling more & more under the fascination of crime, tenders his services to the police as informer, worms his way into the secret councils...
...release of scraggly, dim-witted Richard Dana, 62, nephew of the late great Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun, and his guardian, Octavia Dockery, 61, daughter of a Confederate brigadier, once members of Natchez, Miss's oldtime gentility, who inhabit a rundown, goat-and-pig infested plantation, "Glenwood." outside Natchez, after their arrest on suspicion of murdering their neighbor, a well-to-do recluse named Jane Surget ("Miss Jennie") Merrill, daughter of President U. S. Grant's Minister to Belgium: indictment of both by the Adams County grand jury acting on secret new evidence. Sympathetic last...