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

"So frank yet so mysterious! Observing her he seemed to see the vague circle which sometimes accompanies the partly filled disk of the moon." "In her, fate had found an adversary and not a victim." "The extraordinary fineness of her flexi­ble waist, the stem of an expanded flower." "Though she was not tall, she appeared to spring up." "Her thin-lipped smile, as prompt to act as the scrape of a safety-match." "A witty expression that shone like a lamp through the ground-glass of her good breeding." FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS "She was as undomestic as a shop-front." "There was something public in her eye, which was large, cold, and quiet." "A robust, unmodulated person." "She felt in italics and thought in capi­tals." "He would have been ugly, had he not been happy." "He had fatally stamped himself as a man who could be interrupted with impunity." "Thin lips, curving like scorched paper." All of which illustrates what I mean when I say, if you would be a word-smith, and aspire to excellence, give your days and nights to Henry James.

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