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Digest, "Shanghai, $20, Enjoyment for the student is the keynote of this book, which—alms to recreate college freshman, and we Gnd our favourites "here, "although sometimes in refreshingly unfamiliar Grets—" Balzac, Barrie, Katherine Mansfield, Ivan Bunin, Jack. and Waller Duranty. tu general the stories "show outstanding characters, Dut alt do not necessarily demon: trate virtue triumphant; Miss Budd's approach Is far more mature and reasonable. We wander well over the world except, unfortunately, Into Asia; if this is. a conscious. omission the short story teacher in China has 4 challenging opportunity. "The book voids the pedantry of useless technical comment, resting its ease on vane ty of appeal: heroism, romance, local colour, religious fancy, and realism, 'At this reading level' we question, bout one choice, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," "and "that for vocabulary range. Perhaps the most thrilling tale is the last, by an unheralded Miss Comer, in Which Seth Biles, an Ohio farmer, shows a young college graduate how one's life may be de-leated toa high Ideal; the "kick" ft the and jars the reader simest as completely as it docs the young man.
Recalling that this is a textbook, we find the final 86 pages neatly listing foregoing Idioms, necessary. refer ences for unfamiliar terms and places, points and questions valuable fo any reader, and a wide-ranging short story bibliography, Some his torical background hag' been supplied by Mrs. Roberts, of the His: tory Department, St. John's Univer: sity, and additional substance. is gleaned from the short, human bio: Braphies preceding each story; this last feature appears as commendable boring from within, because the writers are shown to be even as you and 1, an important point that many teachers overlook. Using this well-planned, uncomplicated collection, first year's students may well ook forward to a stimulating course of short story oxploration.—
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