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...live on a scow near a Brooklyn dump heap. Here they meet a rich gentleman who has lost his memory. After much todo, Alice reaches the arms of the restored man of property, and the old soldier hears bugles calling as the curtain falls slowly on a preposterous yarn, told with undeniable but sometimes unmistakably forced charm...
...Famed naturalist, sportsman, associate editor of Field & Stream. Many the good bass yarn (sea bass) has he written...
...Arthur has made the "discovery of another forgotten notebook of Holmes in a strong box that had been hidden away for years." The twelve stories in The Case Book are conclusive evidence that, despite his dubious doctrines on spiritualism, Sir Arthur has lost none of his persuasiveness in inductive yarn-spining...
...fortnight ago, the Boston Traveler told a mysterious yarn about a famed aviator (unnamed) who is secretly hard at work on a giant transatlantic airplane, somewhere in Massachusetts...
...Trossachs, and the psychological actuate his characters where once the adventurous ran them in and out of impossible situations. But the change is not displeasing nor unconvincing. He shows, moreover, a knowledge of ancient rites and prehistoric religions that lend a peculiar fascination to the tale. It is a yarn by a scholar of the antique, if thta is comprehensible, a romance by an author who knows the romance of the past and proves that the truth or near truth after all is stranger than fiction. For the old preChristian festival of the coming of spring--in Plakos, the scene...