Chapter 11
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By GEORGE ADE
PINK MARSH
A story of the Streets and Town.
There is, underlying these character sketches, a refinement of feeling that wins and retains one's admiration.--_St. Louis Globe-Democrat_.
Here is a perfect triumph of characterization ... Pink must become a household word.--_Kansas City Star_.
It is some time since we have met with a more amusing character than is "Pink Marsh," or to give him his full title, William Pinckney Marsh of Chicago.... "Pink" is not a conventional "coon" of the comic paper and the variety ball, but a genuine flesh and blood type, presented with a good deal of literary and artistic skill.--_New York Sun_.
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ARTIE
A story of the Streets and Town.
Mr. Ade shows all the qualities of a successful novelist.--_Chicago Tribune_.
Artie is a character, and George Ade has limned him deftly as well as amusingly. Under his rollicking abandon and recklessness we are made to feel the real sense and sensitiveness, and the worldly wisdom of a youth whose only language is that of a street-gamin. As a study of the peculiar type chosen, it is both typical and inimitable.--_Detroit Free Press_.
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By HENRY JAMES
IN THE CAGE: A NOVELETTE
With every recent story Mr. James seems to have entered a new field. "What Maisie Knew" was certainly a wide departure from his previous work, and "In The Cage," the life of a girl behind the wire screen of an English telegraph office, is as novel as one could wish. The story is slight and the incidents are few, but the charm of Mr. James's style, the absolute precision of his expression, the keenness of the analysis make the book remarkable in contemporary fiction.
We could not wish for a better representation of the art of Mr. Henry James. In appearance it is only a sketch of a girl who works the telegraph in an office that is part of a grocer's shop in the West End, but as background there is the extravagant world of fashion throwing out disjointed hints of vice and intrigue in messages handed in as indifferently as if the operator were only part of the machine. Nevertheless, she is a woman, too, and feminine interest and curiosity so quicken her wits that she is able to piece together "the high encounter with life, the large and complicated game" of her customers. This, in fact, is the romance in her life, the awakening touch to her imagination, and it is brought into skilful contrast with the passionless commonplace of her own love.--_Academy_.
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WHAT MAISIE KNEW: A NOVEL
Henry James's masterpiece.--_Chicago Times-Herald_.
It will rank as one of his most notable achievements.--_New York Sun_.
The book contains some of the author's cleverest dialogue.--_New York Tribune_.
"What Maisie Knew," taken all in all, contains some of the keenest, most profound analysis which has yet come from the pen of that subtle writer. There is no question that Henry James's latest work will sell.--_New York Commercial Advertiser_.
It is quite impossible to ignore that, if the word have any significance and is ever to be used at all, we are here dealing with genius. This is a work of genius as much as Mr. Meredith's best work.--_Pall Mall Gazette_.
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