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The Light that Never Was?
November 1, 1917 issue

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The article focuses on four books "Long Live the King," by Mary Roberts Rinehart, "Wolf-Lure," by Agnes Castle and Egerton Castle, "William, by the Grace of God," by Marjorie Bowen, "The Wanderers," by Mary Johnston. Any person with the knack of docketing might find it necessary to use a number of pigeon-holes in order to straighten out the historical or "costume" novel. There would be the story that tries to revivify the past, the story that tries to interpret life by way of the past, the story that simply makes use of the properties and atmosphere of the past for the glamour that is in them and the story that confers that glamour upon the present by whisking us away from our own dooryard into some enchanted land of fancy.

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BOOKS; LONG Live the King (Book); WOLF-Lure (Book); WILLIAM, by the Grace of God (Book); WANDERERS, The (Book); JOHNSTON, Mary; BOWEN, Marjorie; CASTLE, Agnes; RINEHART, Roberts
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