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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

"The air was like a clap of hands-." "There was a household quietness in her step and gestures." "There was something in his quick, brown eye that showed you he was not economiz­ing consciousness." FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 67 New York, "the youngest, and easiest, and most good-humored of capitals." "A countenance almost chemically clean and dry." A graveyard where "the very headstones themselves seemed to sleep, as they slanted into the grass." "Everything in France is a picture-even things that are ugly." "Her high-held, much-rubbed hands seemed always assenting exuberantly to something unsaid." The villa "stood on the summit of an olive-muffled hill." "A large, bright, dull, murmurous, mild-eyed, middle-aged dinner." "Across the level of a meadow a footpath wandered like a streak drawn by a finger over the surface of a stuff." "Her spell sprang not from her beauty, 68 FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS She exercised the magnificent power of mak. ing her lover forget her face." "Having hustled all sensibility out of their lives, they invented the fiction that they felt too much to utter."

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