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...LAMP?Mary Roberts Rinehart?Doran $2.00). Able Mrs. Rinehart places herself at the center of consciousness of a scholarly professor who is deeply agitated by what seem to be the posthumous performances of his late asthmatic, or strangled, uncle. Between seances, telepathic messages, furniture upheavals and the receipt of "quaint ciphers, he (she) writes a diary. Hounds bay, doors crash, mysterious lights shine on headlands and creep under beds. Uncle's ghost marches in the alumni parade, sheep are slaughtered, four people die quite violently. A very devil of an uncle, yet you and the professor can never be sure...
...curious taxicab of the soul, the human body. He foresaw the day, he intimated, when parts would be obtainable at standard prices from agencies in most large towns and service stations along the highways. In the minds of his listeners arose the vision of hilarious advertisements offering for rent quaint objects "slightly used but still in good condition," putting up for sale parts "for which the owners had no further use"; of parts which might be exchanged for other parts...
...Baltimore. Tennis, as well as golf, has its Municipal champions. Last week some were crowned in Baltimore; quaint names, unfamiliar even to most Baltimorons, crept into the sporting sheets-such, for examples, as the names of Lejeck, Rosenblatt, Sluitor. The former-Charles and Leo Lejeck-'discouraged the united efforts of the latter to become National Municipal Doubles Champions. The agile Ted Drewes of St. Louis defeated obstinate Eddie Jacobs for the singles title in a match which revealed that the gilded upper classes are not the only people who play tennis-but they play it best...
Vanderneut (a quaint though unfamiliar name) because, when the hammer descended with its above-onomatopeotized concussion, the noise was no more than a polite acknowledgement from Christie's auctioneer of Mr. Vanderneut's right to pay 6,000 guineas (about $30,000) for Sargent's earnest copy of a master's struggle with difficulties...
...letters, To a Young Gentleman of Yale University (on writing as a career) and A Reply to a Young Gentleman About Travel have a flavor that is authentically literary as well as intentionally quaint...