Word: stevensons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...STORM -CENTER ? Burton E. Stevenson?Dodd, Mead ($2.00). Almost anything is rather more than likely to happen in Algiers. In order to insure its vigorous occurrence, Mr. Stevenson takes at least two high-grade heroes, the same number of carefully selected villains, and projects them together among the sinister wilds of the Atlas mountains. An exchanged seat on a train, a mysterious warning, a veiled lady, a crazy archaeologist, a tangle of Moslem intrigue, all give infinite opportunity for slaughter, mystery, catastrophe. The two heroes are respectively Irish, and French; the villains are perfectly valid cinema sheiks. A capital...
...today. Yet but a short distance out on the stormy Atlantic hovers romance in plenty; unsolved tragedies, unidentified bodies washed ashore, feminine accomplices and love interest, sudden fierce skirmishes on the high seas, in fact all the sundry trappings of blood-and-thunder yarns. All that lacks is a Stevenson or a Conrad to write the modern romance...
...Next Room. Burton Egbert Stevenson is probably best known for his colossus among anthologies?The Home Book of Verse. Yet once he wrote a mystery yarn called The Boule Cabinet. Eleanor Robson (Mrs. August) Belmont saw in it another who-killed-him drama and (in collaboration with Harriet Ford) managed the transposition. One will surmise that a mystery melodrama must be exceptionally good to warrant production after The Thirteenth Chair, The Bat and their descending dynasty. In the Next Room is exceptionally good. It states its problem, defies the spectator to solve it, maintains that defiance to the very closing...
Howard Pyle was best known as an illustrator, in heroic style, of adventure stories for boys. He it was who first made Stevenson, Cooper, Malory's Morte d'Arthur-not to mention his own Robin Hood, Otto of the Silver Hand, etc.-alive in many a boy's heart; but he was also a great and serious artist on canvas and in mural decoration. Pyle was born in Wilmington, Del., in 1853, and lived there until his death in 1911. He knew the satisfaction of being an honored prophet in his own community. To his home flocked...
...Pall Mall Gazette is dead. It was " a paper written by gentlemen for gentlemen." Among its editors were the late John Morley and Lord Milner. George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Matthew Arnold, R. L. Stevenson had contributed. Was the Gazette too good for its public...