Pieces of Hate; And Other Enthusiasms

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Heywood Hale Broun. Pieces of Hate; And Other Enthusiasms

PREFACE

I. THE NOT IMPOSSIBLE SHEIK

II. JOHN ROACH STRATON

III. PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF OFFSPRING

IV. G. K. C

V. ON BEING A GOD

VI. CHIVALRY IS BORN

VII. RUTH VS. ROTH

VIII. THE BIGGER THE YEAR

IX. FOR OLD NASSAU

X. MR. DEMPSEY'S FIVE-FOOT SHELF

XI. SPORT FOR ART'S SAKE

XII. JACK THE GIANT KILLER

XIII. JUDGE KRINK

XIV. FRANKINCENSE AND MYRRH

XV. THE EXCELSIOR MOVEMENT

XVI. THE DOG STAR

XVII. ALTRUISTIC POKER

XVIII. THE WELL MADE REVIEW

XIX. AN ADJECTIVE A DAY

XX. THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER

XXI. A TORTOISE SHELL HOME

XXII. I'D DIE FOR DEAR OLD RUTGERS

XXIII. ARE EDITORS PEOPLE?

XXIV. WE HAVE WITH US THIS EVENING —

XXV. THE YOUNG PESSIMISTS

XXVI. GLASS SLIPPERS BY THE GROSS

XXVII. A MODERN BEANSTALK

XXVIII. VOLSTEAD AND CONVERSATION

XXIX. LIFE, THE COPY CAT

XXX. THE ORTHODOX CHAMPION

XXXI. WITH A STEIN ON THE TABLE

XXXII. ART FOR ARGUMENT'S SAKE

XXXIII. NO 'RAHS FOR RAY

XXXIV "ATABOY!"

XXXV. HOW TO WIN MONEY AT THE RACES —

XXXVI. ONE TOUCH OF SLAPSTICK

XXXVII. DANGER SIGNALS FOR READERS

XXXVIII. ADVENTURE MADE PAINLESS

XXXIX. THE TALL VILLA

XL. PROFESSOR GEORGE PIERCE BAKER

XLI. WHAT SHAKESPEARE MISSED

XLII. CENSORING THE CENSOR

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Women must be peculiar people, if that. We have just finished "The Sheik," which is described on the jacket as possessing "ALL the intense passion and tender feeling of the most vivid love stories, almost brutal in its revelations."

Naturally, we read it. The author is English and named E. M. Hull. The publishers expand the "E" to Ethel, but we have a theory of our own. At any rate the novelist displays an extraordinary knowledge of feminine psychology. It is profound. It is also a little disturbing because it sounds so silly. After all, whether peculiar or not women are round about us almost everywhere, and we must make the best of them. Accordingly, it terrifies us to learn that if by any chance whatsoever we happen to hit one of them and knock her down she will become devoted to us forever. The man who knows this will think twice before he strikes a woman no matter what the provocation. He will be inclined to count ten before letting a blow go instead of after. Miss Hull's book deserves the widest possible circulation because of its persuasive propaganda for forebearance on the part of men in their dealings with women.

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Something in the title of the Briggs series must have touched him. "To-morrow, perhaps," he answered. Feeling that the mountain was about to come through we stood our ground like another Mahomet. Better than that we rose to one of the few superb moments in our life. Looking at Mr. Chesterton coldly we said slowly, "It must be now or never." And we used a gesture. The nature of it escapes us, but it was something appropriate. Later we wondered just what reply would have been possible if he had answered, "Never." After the danger had passed we realized that we had been holding up the visitor with an empty gun. It must have been our manner which awed him and he stopped walking and almost turned around.

"The press men have been here since two o'clock," he complained more in sorrow than in anger. "What is it you want to know?"

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