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CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.
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“It would be the better for compression and it is rather too somber
in its treatment.”
“As in all his stories, Ridgwell Cullum has an excellent plot for his
latest book. But with equal ease he mars the telling with a
cumbersome, prolix style.”
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The Times [London] Lit Sup p602 S 16
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“The essays are interesting enough, although they show less power
and originality than the journal. An occasional remark, for its
quaintness or its insight, will remind the reader that they are the
literary exercises of an unusually able man.”
“It has not the interest of the earlier book, though the individual
sketches are very readable.”
“Turn the pages where you will and beauty escapes them, and
always this sense of the infinite volume of life.” Hildegarde
Hawthorne
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The events related in this book took place in the eighteen nineties
but about them there is the flavor of past centuries. Mr
Cunninghame Graham has told the story of Antonio Maciel, known
as Antonio Conselheiro (the councillor) who was known as a prophet
and saint and who with his followers became involved in civil war. A
long introduction describes the scene of action, that region of
Pernambuco and Bahia, known as the Sertão, a term translatable
only as “wooded, back-lying highlands.” It is an arid country, devoted
to cattle raising and it has developed a people described as “a race
apart—a race of centaurs, deeply imbued with fanaticism, strong,
honest, revengeful, primitive, and refractory to modern ideas and life
to an extraordinary degree.” Their religious faith is likened to that of
some of the Gnostic sects of Asia Minor in the second century.
“The volume belongs in the hands of all who enjoy stirring fiction
as well as illuminating history and the charm of a personal style.” I.
G.
“One can read in every page the ‘peculiar pleasure’ of the author, in
his writing of such an extraordinary nineteenth century tale. It gives
him everything in narration which delights him.”
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The world, to the author, is the shadow-show. Men are the puppets
doomed to play their part by inexorable law with but an illusory show
of free-will. The author’s part was that of traveler. Before he was
forty he had seen the world from end to end and in writing this, his
life’s history, he looked back on a “great and splendid
phantasmagoria,” of which the book unrolls picture after picture. The
pictures are: A showman in the making; In South Africa; The
tortoise’s head; “Life’s liquor”; Women; Glimpses of the East; The
dream city of Samarkand; Wanderings in South America; “By the
waters of Babylon”; A grave in Samoa; Mine own people; “Through
the seventh gate.”
910
“Mr Curle has a fine sense of the beautiful and the rare, but, except
in a few pages, leaves humor out of the graces with which he adorns
the book he dedicates to Joseph Conrad.” F: O’Brien
Robert O’Mara, a young actor, who is out of a job and down on his
luck, answers an advertisement which begins: “Wanted: a fool, a man
who is mad enough to desire a quiet, clean, comfortable home with
chance to save money rather than high wages with dirt, noise, and
uncertain employment.” He accepts the position thus offered by a Mr
Pickering and becomes caretaker to a lonely but luxurious cabin in
the hills of Massachusetts. From his first night there, when, unseen
by her, he watches a young girl in evening dress go thru his master’s
books, an air of mystery surrounds the place. His confusion is
deepened by the fact that the few people he comes in contact with
seem to know him, while to his knowledge they are all strangers. The
key to the mystery is held by “Mr Pickering,” who has been leading a
double life, and things are further cleared up when O’Mara learns
that since his retirement to the country he has been picked by a
leading theatrical manager for a star part, with his picture
prominently displayed in the newspapers. The girl of the midnight
visit has played quite a part in Mr Pickering’s life, but comes to be
even more important in O’Mara’s.
“One has to admit that Mr Curtiss has spun his tale from very
fragile threads and that his denouement proves sometimes a trifle
strained. Nevertheless he tangles the threads with a high handed
delight.”
“There are so many bypaths in the story that a careless and cursory
reader might easily lose himself in a tangle of entrances and exits and
‘aside’ speeches. But the author keeps a firm hand on his work, as is
proved by his coming out triumphantly ‘fit’ and lucid in the last
chapter, even if his readers may be somewhat dazed and breathless.”
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James Kent was a member of the Royal mounted police in the far
northwest of Canada. When he believes himself dying he confesses to
a murder for which another man is condemned to die setting the
latter free. But Kent does not die and now it is his turn to hang. A
mystery girl appears in the nick of time and helps him to escape.
Their scow is wrecked in the rapids of the Athabasca river and
Marette is apparently drowned. To reach her home in the “Valley of
silent men” is now the only worthwhile goal left to Kent. With his last
strength he finds it and also Marette. It is a story of self-sacrifices
prompted by gratitude, of friendships and heroic love and of dark
deeds—all of which come to light in the Valley of silent men.
“Well written, but is almost too tense, too somber, and sometimes
too trying in its horror to be a pleasant book.”
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This little book is intended for those who write other things, chiefly
newspaper “stories” and magazine articles. It is partly
autobiographical, for the author draws on his own experience. The
first chapter. About noses and jaws, points out that what is known as
a “nose for news” plus grit are the factors in success. Other chapters
are: How to prepare a manuscript; How to take photographs;
Finding a market; A beginner’s first adventures; In New York’s “Fleet
street”; Something to sell; What the editor wants.
“It’s quite a readable little book even if one feels no need of the
professional advice which is its raison d’etre.”
(19–243)
In this second and revised edition “much new material has been
incorporated into the text, and this has necessitated, of course, the
re-writing of the major portion of the book. The final chapter on the
‘Philosophy of the nineteenth century’ has been developed at some
length.” (Preface) Contents: The causes of the decay of the
civilization of the middle ages; The renaissance (1453–1690); The
humanistic period of the renaissance (1453–1600); The natural
science period of the renaissance (1600–1630); The rationalism of
the natural science period of the renaissance; The enlightenment
(1690–1781); John Locke; Berkeley and Hume; The enlightenment in
France and Germany; Kant; The German idealists; The philosophy of
the thing-in-itself; The philosophy of the nineteenth century;
illustrations, diagrams and index.
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