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...slightly crushed foetus with an insolvent mustache." Author Cabell takes his literary profession seriously. "Every writer of fiction comes among us. . . from out of a land in which he is God: he comes from a high ordaining of love and death and of all human affairs in this mote familiar land. . . ." For Cabell the land of Pictesme is his spirit's home. Neither the daily visits of his postman. Fearing fan mail from the outside world, nor the American flag that flaps before his summer writing-porch, in "that Viriginia summer resort which nowadays . . . is best known to my inattentiveness...
...great Anthony Comstock, but nothing came of it. He founded Physical Culture City at Helmetta, N. J., as a health resort and a base for his publishing campaigns; but before things were properly under way he was arrested, charged with sending lewd & obscene matter through the mails. The offending mote was Wild Oats, a serial dime-novel of syphilis, appearing in Physical Culture. He was sentenced to two years' imprisonment, $2,000 fine. After he vainly appealed the case to the U. S. Supreme Court. Attorney General Wickersham remitted the prison sentence, but not the fine...
...WIFE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Mote, beam and matriarch...
...WIFE-Dorothy Canfield-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Mote, beam and matriarch...
Arthur Train's book is The Blind Goddess (Scribner's). Kathleen Norris has written this time about English folk, in The Black Flemings (Doubleday, Page). Archibald Marshall collaborated with H. A. Vachell on Mote House Mystery (Dodd, Mead). Patricia Wentworth's latest is The Dower House Mystery (Small, Maynard...