Under the title Some of our (onventions," Miss Elizabeth Godfrey, in the "Albany Review," writes on the well-worn phrases and traditions on the part of those who write fiction, and who persist in following the needless be} conventions which novelists, following one another slong the well-trodden ways, have created for themselves.
There is, says Mies Godfrey, first of all the convention of the heroine's pocket and veil, which base held their ground for generatims. The heroine always hid her letters or other treasures in the bosom of her gown, never in her pocket. Now her blouse fastens up the back the pocket is doomed, and letters get thrown in the fire.
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