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D ends by quoting Bergson, Washington Irving or Agnes Repplier; and from
epigrams based on puns, good or bad; and from stories beginning, "It was
the autumn of the year 1950"; and from stories embodying quotations from
Omar Khayyam, and full of a mellow pessimism; and from stories in which
the gay nocturnal life of the Latin Quarter is described by an author
living in Dubuque, Iowa; and from stories of thought transference,
mental healing and haunted houses; and from newspaper stories in which a
cub reporter solves the mystery of the Snodgrass murder and is promoted
to dramatic critic on the field, or in which a city editor who smokes a
corn-cob pipe falls in love with a sob-sister; and from stories about
trained nurses, young dramatists, baseball players, heroic locomotive
engineers, settlement workers, clergymen, yeggmen, cowboys, Italians,
employes of the Hudson Bay Company and great detectives; and from
stories in which the dissolute son of a department store owner tries to
seduce a working girl in his father's employ and then goes on the water
wagon and marries her as a tribute to her virtue; and from stories in
which the members of a yachting party are wrecked on a desert island in
the South Pacific, and the niece of the owner of the yacht falls in love
with the bo'sun; and from manuscripts accompanied by documents
certifying that the incidents and people described are real, though
cleverly disguised; and from authors who send in saucy notes when their
offerings are returned with insincere thanks; and from lady authors who
appear with satirical letters of introduction from