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full of the spirit of each
passing age, psychologically
interesting, and yet with
a moral 'uplift' in them
that 'done me a lot of
good' and a unity to
the whole book given
by the entrancing
mystery of heredity.
What a grand idea to
hang it onto Abe. That
18th century Kentucky ancestor
of his, lifting it quite
natural-like out of the
slime of the seedy rascals
just before, is grand. The idea
and execution of the seedy rascals is also capital.
Its all so daftly natural
and probable - barring
the ring which is thrown in
to make the vulgar gape and