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This last fact seems to be true of the yarn-spinner. The writer who takes his trade seriously as art with a capital " A " finds the process of creating a masterpiece onerous. Take Joseph Conrad, for example, who made a statement on his arrival here, or was so quoted, that he had never learned to enjoy writing. But the raconteur, whose one guide is a brilliant imagination who lets his only guide be the swift telling of a tale of life, love, mystery and the complications along the side lines. That must be real...
...fiction; it has atmosphere and color, and a sufficient plot; and in its fundamental idea that straightforward honesty is the surest means of success it emphasizes one of the most cherished of Harvard ideals. The other two stories are well written, but neither is strikingly original. The greybearded spinner of the impossible story of "Dead Man's Pine" is vividly and convincingly drawn, and the inconsistencies of his yarn are not too much insisted on. "Her House ont of Order" introduces the hackneyed characters of the wealthy and eccentric father, the beautiful daughter, and the rich lover, against the background...
...twenty years Romney was the acknowleged rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1782 his friend Charles Greville brought Emma Hart, afterwards Lady Hamilton, to sit for her portrait. Of this famous woman Romney painted not less than twenty-three portraits in various poses. His picture of her as a spinner is his masterpiece. It is a miracle of simplicity, soft color, and bewitching grace...
...wind that does not send a thrill to the brain along some one of these subtile intellectual fibres stretched seemingly at random in every direction, yet bound one to the other by flying buttresses of almost invisible association, and coming together in the middle point where sits the alert spinner himself...
Hollis Street-The Kendals in It was a Dream. The Money Spinner...