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E. K, MEANS, the author, is a Louisiana pastor, who has made himself so completely THE writer of negro stories, that it is enough to call the book E. K. MEANS.
The New York Tribune says:
"He has given us its humor, its pathos, and its inimitable picturesqueness, without caricature, and without malice, and he has so admirably balanced matter and manner that the reader never thinks that he is telling the story for the sake of the dialect, or that he is using the dialect for the sake of the story. The dialect would be perfect if there were no stories at all, and the stories would be irresistibly entertaining if there were no dialect at all."
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Blue Aloes
By
Cynthia Stockley
Author of "Poppy," "The Claw," "Wild Honey," etc.
No writer can so unfailingly summons and materialize the spirit of the weird, mysterious South Africa as can Cynthia Stockley. She is a favored medium through whom the great Dark Continent its tales unfolds.
A strange story is this, of a Karoo farm,—a hedge of Blue Aloes, a cactus of fantastic beauty, which shelters a myriad of creeping things,—a whisper and a summons in the dead of the night,—an odor of death and the old.
There are three other stories in the book, stories throbbing with the sudden, intense passion and the mystic atmosphere of the Veldt.
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Author of "The Way of an Eagle," "The Knave of
Diamonds," "The Rocks of Valpre," "The
Keeper of the Door," "Bars of
Iron," etc.
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Striking and forceful as have been all the stories of Ethel M. Dell, few have possessed as much strength and charm as these. From the moment when the heroine leaps from the burning stage into the protection of a stranger's outstretched arms, to the time when the latter stands a bulwark between her and a remorseless pursuer bent on again enslaving her, love is the safety curtain that shuts out the perils that threaten to overwhelm. Not less interesting are the other four long stories of the volume, running in some cases to a length of more than one hundred pages.
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