“On occasions he is out in his scansion and in his grammar. But this is to show Mr. Mifflin at his worst. His best, though never quite free from the intrusion of the second-best word, shows a power of sympathetic description, usually sad, that leaves its mood behind it.”
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“If there is a lack of pith and fibre in Mr. Mifflin’s lyrics that makes against the permanence of the impression left by them, his narrative poetry ... is, after all, admirable.”
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“‘The fleeing nymph, and other poems,’ by Lloyd Mifflin, have the light and graceful touch characteristic of their author.”
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Mighels, Philip Verrill. Ultimate passion: a novel. [†]$1.50. Harper.
An honest young politician with high ideals accepts the support of a corrupt political ring in his race for the presidency in order that he may learn their methods and thus combat them. Three women come into his life, the foolish daughter of the “boss”, an adventuress, and a real woman who arouses the “ultimate passion” which survives when his political campaign fails.
“If you want a good example of the book which overreaches itself by deliberate exaggeration, you will find it in ‘The ultimate passion.’” Frederic Taber Cooper.
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