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132 132 COMMONSENSE OF MR. ARNOLD BENNETT neatly transhipped, much as English castles are taken down brick by brick by Americans to be built up again over there. We get the working parts of the machine in exactly the form most universally intelligible. They fit together to form a working model, and a latch-key, any latch-key, is all that is re(q[uired to set it lucidly going. And even the marks of exclamation in which it is packed and the abundance of " prodigiouses " have their use. They keep us aware of the scale. That must be a pretty colossal structure (we reflect) that could reduce the proved Samson of our letters to the condition of the dominie. Manchester Gua/rdian, 1911-13.