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...youngster cracks it over the backs of the first yoke of oxen his father tells him to remember that he started the first expedition to Oregon back in '48. The scene at the crossing of the Platte River is beautifully done, and gives more of a thrill than any of the other big moments, and there were many. In the Indian dances and fights it is a relief to see real Indians, and men who know what a horse looks like close to. It was interesting to see the many causes of a steadily decreasing number in the train. Some...
...that the vogue of any of the above-named gentry has entirely gone by. Tattered Tom, the bootblack, is still able to thrill adolescent readers as he helps the white-haired old gentleman across the street to receive in recompense a bright silver dollar and a great deal of moral advice. The athletic English striplings of Henty's confection continue to slay their thousands in every known historical period. But the last few years have only brought forth one writer with a true genius for the " children's story," Hugh Lofting, and he belongs rather with Lewis Carroll...
...LAST WARNING-A bag of ghastly tricks in a " deserted" theatre. All those will thrill who have not thrilled before, and those who thrilled before will thrill again...
...meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability. Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she has the rare gift of dramatizing fact so that it has the thrill of a mystery story. Dark, faultlessly dressed, with graceful nervous hands and the deep eyes that are at once penetrating and sympathetic, she is a beautiful and a forceful woman...
Woman Suffrage and Politics (the "inner story of the suffrage movement"), by Carrie Chapman Catt, has been written for those whose hearts will thrill to every step of the march toward the polls...