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Show Skipping. The advisability of discreet skipping is thus set forth by Mr. Anthony Deane in the London Pilot: When I meet a paragraph which begins be-gins -It Is now necessary to retrace our steps somewhat to explain . .... Or. The crimson sun by this time neared the horizon. Far over the hills stretched stretch-ed a vault of heavy clouds, its strange purple tints fading and dissolving into Or." But the contents of this room his "sanctum sanctorum" deserve more detailed description Or, O strange, unfathomable mystery of existence, compelling our purblind race When, I say, I meet a passage on a novel which begins thus, I skip like anything. .- '' V |