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...plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds of the way through the book does the writer find it necessary to conceal from the reader the surmises in the detective's mind. The writing is workman like ; only the proofreading is slipshod...
...that organization his views may be considered as holding a mid-point between the two extreme wings. Compared to the conservatives. Mr. Green is a progressive, and yet, compared to the radicals, he is decidedly a conservative. While he favors social legislation and is the author of the Ohio Workman's Compensation law, he opposes the "one big union" idea and the influence of the Third International in trade union affairs. He is radical enough to favor government ownership of the railroads, but he is conservative enough to oppose the entrance of organized labor into the insurance business...
...experience into fiction by the process of studying the short stories of others. The Homely Heroine, in the collection Buttered Side Down, was her initial attempt at fiction and, if you will turn to it, you'll find that it's a good story still. She is an honest workman. She respects her craft. She is successful, and an artist as well. Recently I heard Sherwood Anderson, himself an artist, claim that it was impossible for anyone with respect for the craft of writing to work with great success for magazines in the U. S. This, I think, is untrue...
...opinion, however ridiculous. But as to a sense of humor giving poise to an individual, there Mr. Frank is wrong. Everyone knows that poise can come only from an exclusive finishing school, or from lots of blue blood. The simple day-laborer, laughing heartily when his fellow-workman falls into the mortar box, is possessed of no poise...
Realizing the iniquities of this situation, a Mr. E. J. Mehren hopes by means of soap, water and snappy clothes to reawaken the old guild spirit of craftsmanship in the modern workman. And what a change that will make: relieved of the inferiority complex which his former garments made him feel, the new plasterer will step out with the pomposity of a banker, and lay plaster with the assurance of a hotel clerk. With this new complacency added to his already striking prosperity, the plasterer will be a man envied...