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If not, why not? EDGAR ALLAN POE: Review of Hawthorne's "Tales." BRANDER MATTHEWS: "The Philosophy of the Short-Story." CHARLES SEARS BALDWIN: Introduction to "American Short Stories." HENRY SEIDEL CANBY: "The Short Story in English." CHARLES RAYMOND BARRETT: "Short Story Writing." BRANDER MATTHEWS: Introduction to "The Short-Story: Specimens Illustrating Its Development."
He is an artist who does his work with a clear-cut, hard finish. His choice of words, vivid pictures, and clearly evolved plots make his writings excellent studies for any one who wishes to develop literary appreciation and to learn to write. Studies and Appreciations, L.E. Gates. American Prose Masters, William Crary Brownwell. The Short Story in English, Henry Seidel Canby.
One night a squadron of Federal horse commanded by Major Seidel, a gallant and skillful officer, moved out from Readyville on an uncommonly hazardous enterprise requiring secrecy, caution and silence. Passing the infantry pickets, the detachment soon afterward approached two cavalry videttes staring hard into the darkness ahead. There should have been three.
The soup came up from the kitchen but simultaneously the orchestra leader came up from the bar, where he had absorbed the tone color inherent in a seidel of beer. So the soup was left to cool during the delivery of a ballad entitled "Everything's at Home Except Your Wife." Then the champagne and the party assumed more amusing proportions.
And the air about me is full of "Kellner!" and "Zwei Seidel, bitte!" and "Wiener Roastbraten und Stangenspargel mit geschlagener Butter!" and "Zwei Seidel, bitte!" and "Junge Kohlrabi mit gebratenen Sardellenklopsen!" and "Zwei Seidel, bitte!" and "Sahnenfilets mit Schwenkkartoffeln!" and "Zwei Seidel, bitte!" and a thousand schmeckt's guts and a thousand prosits and "Zwei Seidel, bitte!"
O fizz that I loved like a father! O fie on the drinks that are duds! I sat by the doors that were slatted And the stuff had a surf like the sea No vintage was anywhere vatted Too strong for ventripotent me! I wallowed in waves that were tidal, But yet I was never unmoored; And after the twentieth seidel My syllables still were assured.
The little tables were spread tinder the trees, and then, later on, perhaps, the customers were spread under the tables. I would ask you to recall the manly seidel of dark beer as you knew it, the bitter chill of it as it went down, the simple felicity it induced in the care-burdened mind. I could quote to you poet after poet who has nourished his song upon honest malt liquor.
All these matters did not interest Irgens in the least. He made up his mind to get away as soon as he could. Coldevin said nothing, but glanced from one to another with his sombre eyes. When he had been presented to Irgens he had murmured a few words, sat down again and remained silent. Irgens looked at him languidly and was silent too. When he had finished his seidel he got up to go.
In my Brahms revisions I have supplied really needed fingerings, bowings, and other indications! Important compositions on which I am now at work include Ernst's fine Concerto, Op. 23, the Mozart violin concertos, and Tartini's Trille du diable, with a special cadenza for my pupil, Toscha Seidel. "Prodigies?" said Professor Auer.
"You are quite right, dear girl," said Quimbleton remorsefully. "But I couldn't help thinking how agreeable a psychical seidel of dark beer would be just now. You are our little Jeanne Dark, you know," he added, with an atrocious attempt at pleasantry. I've noticed it has been harder and harder to bring her back from these states of suspended sobriety.
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