The small town element is here in the fact that every one knows the business of everyone else be it the lawyer who connives to secure the drunkard’s farm through his wife before she has actually determined on a divorce suit, or the adventurous young minx with the peroxide hair who flirts with her uncle and her staid next door neighbor to the distress of their wives. The stories are interesting although not wholly pleasing for the admirable traits of the villagers are subordinated to their unlovely ones.
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“In spite of these ... defects ... the compilation is distinctly serviceable. With careful revision it might be made indispensable.”
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