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OMPLETE SUN 4 ‘Novet Being an Account Given by Charles Lassiter of Some Explorations on the Nanay, a Tributary of the Upper Amazon, and Transcribed SL TS. Striblin Author of “The Green Splotches” EDITOR’S NOTE — During the eleven years of this magazine’s life I think we have not once prefaced a story with any statement to the effect that ‘“‘this is the most remarkable story of the, etc.’’ We do not so announce ‘The Web of the Sun.’’ Its place in the literature of the day must be determined by the general judgment. To those who wish only a good story of action it will, I think, be fully satisfying. But you will find it much more than that. One critic, whose judgment seems to me personally of first-rank value on such a point, gave as his opinion — with an almost fierce enthusiasm unusual to him—that this story ranks Mr. Stribling with Voltaire and the greatest satirists of all time. I do not feel myself competent to draw such a comparison, but I believe that no thinking man can read this story without finding Mr. Stribling’s rapier very deeply inserted in his no- tions of things in general. To any who may be distracted from the main point of the story by one phase of one of its factors, finding what seems disparagement of any man’s religious belief, let it be pointed out that Birdsong emerges with at least as much credit as do the characters who disparage it and him, that the ficti- tious narrator can not be taken as expressing the author’s own opinions, and *“The Web of the Sun,” copyright 1921, by T. S. Stribling. Copyright, 1921, by The Ridgway Company tn the United States and Great Britain. Allrights reserved. GCOMIGIOO C©