Word: roundabout
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Criticize a play by making fun of the people who see it may be a trifle unfair, yet "Somebody's Luggage" is of a weight so nicely fitted to the shoulders of its audience that we may be pardoned for the roundabout method. Those who go to such a play desire neither the delicacy of an English comedy, nor what we often have in a French one, a hinting at things not said. They want and they get a typical American force, a Kaleidoscopic series of incidents (the plot foreseen from the first) built around the ability of the leading...
...having the greatest difficulty in phrasing the narrative to suit him. From Whittier came the manuscript of several poems, together with a letter suggesting that one of them is of a class of poems of mine which are rather un-Quakerish.' Thackeray is represented by a bit of the 'Roundabout Papers,' Sydney Smith by his 'Letter to the Pennsylvanians' who had repudiated a state loan, and George Eliot by 'Agatha.' Charles Reade's first draft of 'The Box Tunnel' is accompanied by two letters, expressing his appreciation of the fact that the Boston firm had 'taken up an author...