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CLASSIFICATION. Miss Ferber recognizes the difficulties of boxing into the shorter form the material which would accommodate a larger space. "The tale of how Jo Hertz came to be a loop-hound should not be compressed within the limits of a short story. It should be told as are the photoplays, with frequent throw-backs and many cut-ins. To condense twenty-three years of a man's life into some five or six thousand words requires a verbal economy amounting to parsimony" (page 209).
She has, however, achieved the short-story effect in creating one dominant character, -- in unifying the action, and in conserving one purpose.