. Springhillian Oct 1919 - July 1920 New Series Vol. XII No. 1 - 4 . es, andthe entrance of the deadly fumes into his nostrils shut the sinister andmournful coincidence from the knowledge of mankind. 0 Henry gavethese tales neither extension nor prominence. So far as I know, they werereceived without salvos or bravos. The distinction of a body of work inwhich such specimens are undistinguished hardly requires comment. A few types among these stories may be specified. There are theSydney cartonisms defined in the name: Tartaron de Tarascon camouflagedunder Colgan the Cosmopolite in the cafe; co
. Springhillian Oct 1919 - July 1920 New Series Vol. XII No. 1 - 4 . es, andthe entrance of the deadly fumes into his nostrils shut the sinister andmournful coincidence from the knowledge of mankind. 0 Henry gavethese tales neither extension nor prominence. So far as I know, they werereceived without salvos or bravos. The distinction of a body of work inwhich such specimens are undistinguished hardly requires comment. A few types among these stories may be specified. There are theSydney cartonisms defined in the name: Tartaron de Tarascon camouflagedunder Colgan the Cosmopolite in the cafe; complemental stories like thatof Jem and Delia: the former sacrifices his watch to buy a comb for Delia,while she had sacrificed her beloved hair to buy a chain for Jem. There isSoapy on the park bench in Central converted by the sound of the organ,but to be newly arrested and transferred to Blackwells for loitering. Thereis Black Bill, the robber, who has his master, a Texas ranger, arrested forthe robbery he himself had committed. There is Maggie, who has her pic-. COLLIOI COACHRICHARD J. DUCOTI THE SPRINGHILLIAN 17 ture of the Count, her dead husband, which proves to be that of Sullivan,a prize fighter. The reader will call to mind these and many other instances of 0Henrys inventiveness. There is another good point we would wish toobserve in him. He is essentially a friend of the poor—the Four Million, hecalls them, and has but little sympathy for those of the remaining four hun-dred who oppress them. His feeling for underpaid working girls is wellknown. His passionate concern for this wrong derives a peculiar emphasisfrom the fact that he has no use for philanthropy in its collective in his dream of Heaven he is asked, Are you one of the bunch?(meaning one of the bunch of grasping employers), the response throughall its slang is soul-stirring. Not on your immortality, said I, I amonly the fellow that set fire to an orphan asylum and murdered a blindman for his pe
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