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The inventor of "It's love that makes the world go round" was presumably referring to the recognized revolutionary movement Which most of us take on trust rather than on actud experience, oF riy profound knowledge of the basts of the Copernican theory. To-day however, novelists almost agree in treating love not as a_ healthy, normal affection of mankind, with natural results, but a8 Gisedse, dope, and despair responsible for minor and major earthquakes. The world goes round in all these novels, but it goes round in the way so regrettably commo we ave to believe the American novelists and not the American 'Ambassador, in countries where alcoholic liquor is prohibited. Love for our four novelists is a plague, fan invasion, quite outside the will and the conscious desire, and the lovers are thrown about' with the eccentric energy of mundane revolution.
'This agreement is the odder because it' is the only thing in common to Mr. Floyd Dell, Ferrell, Senor Ibanez, and Mr.
otherwise in style treatment, weary merit four books could searcely be more unlike. But. in all of them "the world goes round and round and round and rounder" as the reveller said as he clung to the Iamppost and gazed at the twinkling are-light.
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