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Show Walt Mason . THE MODERN NOVELS I knn I'm fossil, I fear I m headed wrong, as down the World I Jostle, amid tho modern throng. It makes nn SB 1 and wean to read th Nnw Romance wherein the authors dreary give not a chnn. e The umkI old plot r l).-ken". of N.ns ami of Kea.l. r... more n .novel quickens, and flclb.n s rojii- l.i ned V.. hae ghastly stuih of problems prob-lems touehing .e. Instead of pirate bloody on red and sllpp) decks. And aer-pent-women vamping, and soctaltstlc ranks, through modern tales are trame-Inp trame-Inp in " stilentlal ranks Such hooks are not lnlllng to one who walked the earth wli'-n t'harlle Keade was writing "The Cloister and the Hearth." And time on them seems squandered small pleasure do they ) leld. to one who's walked and wandered with David Cop. icrfleiil " The Jeer the old time writers: writ-ers: "Victorian. " they say. afid hint that mn were blighters who wr.jle In ths I past day. I would that story tellers I whO'Ve hit the modern srroove. would emulate em-ulate those fellers, and make their storlew ! move' Oh. I am tired of fiction devoid I of stirring plots, that banks on charming rl tton and lines that end In dots. . . . I Through bookstore 1 go wending for ' Muff to read In vain I like a happy ; ending ' want the villain -lain |