. Review of reviews and world's work. SCOTT. KIJWIN LEFKVHE. its value indefinitely,—this suspicion would in realityproduce just such startling and dramatic effects as itdoes in Mr. Lefevres story. That story, however, hasmore than its element of uniqueness to recommend studies in the characters of great financiers. Gentileand Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude. The Walking Delegate, by Leroy Scott (Doubleday,Page), is, as its title shows, a study of the labor unionas it exists to-day in this country. Mr. Scott joined a union himself andstudied his men atclose range


. Review of reviews and world's work. SCOTT. KIJWIN LEFKVHE. its value indefinitely,—this suspicion would in realityproduce just such startling and dramatic effects as itdoes in Mr. Lefevres story. That story, however, hasmore than its element of uniqueness to recommend studies in the characters of great financiers. Gentileand Jew, are of unusual vividness and verisimilitude. The Walking Delegate, by Leroy Scott (Doubleday,Page), is, as its title shows, a study of the labor unionas it exists to-day in this country. Mr. Scott joined a union himself andstudied his men atclose range, all ofwhich would nothave helped him hadhe not been possessedof true creativepower. Buck Foley,walking delegate andmost infamous ofconceivable black-guards, is one of themost powerful, vivid,and almost tangiblecharacters in the fic-tion of recent is superbly vigor-ous and alive. Hard-ly, if at all, less con-vincing are the otherchief, and even minor, characters, above all TomKeating, bitter enemy of graft and tyranny, wh


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