What is a man's best age? Peter Ibbetson, entering dreamland with complete
freedom to choose, chose twenty-eight, and kept there. But twenty-eight,
for our present purpose, has a drawback: a man of that age, if endowed with
ordinary gifts and responsive to ordinary opportunities, is undeni ...
With the publication of his first book, This Weary World, Abner Joyce
immediately took a place in literature. Or rather, he made it; the book
was not like other books, and readers felt the field of fiction to be the
richer by one very vital and authentic personality.
When old Mr. Marshall finally took to his bed, the household viewed this
action with more surprise than sympathy, and with more impatience than
surprise. It seemed like the breaking down of a machine whose
trustworthiness had been hitherto infallible; his family were almost
forced to the ...