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...single burst?only event of its kind?...
Attired in his favorite garment?a faded uniform democratically without rank insignia of any kind???he loomed more than ever the fighter among his impressively and impeccably garmented staff. Peering at the correspondents from beneath his great eyebrows he replied to their request for an interview...
...muckraking novel?written rather to expose an abuse than to describe actual men and women in fiction?we have always with us. The Jungle (Upton Sinclair) is a good sample of its kind???and good of its kind. But the kind is not lasting. And, in general, our accredited novelists seem to prefer to deal, if not with brokers, artists and young collegians, at least with the Babbitts and sub-Babbitts of the middle class...
...natural accidents?a sudden " crush " of Laurel's on the widowed first-love?the revival of an ancient and baseless scandal about Stella herself?made the issue plain. Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind??? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South...
FOUR OF A KIND???J. P. Marquand ?Scribner's ($1.75). This volume is made up of four swift-moving, active, unpretentious tales. They are a little longer than short stories, not long enough to be called novels. Their chief merit rests in the young author's vigor of presentation, his quick eye for externals, a certain freshness of viewpoint. One of the four is concerned with a prizefighter; another with a debutante; the third story is set in an advertising office; the last is a tale of horses and the riding thereof...