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...SAGA OF THE COMSTOCK LODE- George D. Lyman - Scribner ($3.50). Written in a tiresomely slapdash manner, but a mine of information about the bonanza days at Virginia City...
...towed clear from China. On the right a full load of 100 Irish immigrants and baggage, including the box of one "Pat Murfy. For Ameriky," debarked from a three-masted British ship. In this, as in all his work, able Painter Samuel B. Waugh had mixed a slapdash effect with some realism...
...like a large masculine thumb. Even without his initial incentive of being a parson's son Dr. Bull's appetites are scandalously hearty. An increasing faction in New Winton, led by First Lady Mrs. Banning and puritanical Matthew Herring, find them an abomination, mutter also at the slapdash way Doc Bull treats his patients, public opinion, his Board of Health job. The doctor, an active, level-headed but choleric 60-year-old, has no very exalted view of medicine, speaks his candid mind on all occasions. ''An old horse doctor like me looks at them...
...quite proper that football should be taken seriously. In the past it was often considered a sport, and it was played for fun in a slapdash unprofessional manner by young men who enjoyed the exercise. This race of dilettantes is now extinct, and has given place to a more conscientious generation which realizes the true function of football in any well-conducted alma mater. For alma mater flourishes by victory on the gridiron, and droops after defeat. No alma mater can withstand prolonged unsuccess at football. The reverberations of humiliation in the Stadium or the Bowl are far-reaching. Attendance...
...thing that Mr. Paine could understand least in the habits of some of the new writers was their ability to put things together in such a slapdash fashion. For him, it is necessary to gather material, to digest it, to think about the finished product as a whole. To write a biography is the work of several years, not of a few weeks. He works in the mornings, or walks, or plays pool with the Editor of St. Nicholas: he considers pool his exercise. His reading is done before he sleeps at night and early in the morning. Driving...