Plum Punch
Crime and the Courts
9781465540379
264 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
CRIME AND THE EYESIGHT “There is,” observed the novelist gravely, “a bad time coming for writers of fiction. A very bad time.” I replied that what with publishers reckoning thirteen copies as twelve, and editors regretting their so-called lack of space (sic), things were, for my humble needs, bad enough already. After which I asked for details. “I have been reading a book,” said he, “by a DR. GEORGE M GOULD. It is called Biographic Clinics, and it deals with the subject of the eyes, and their influence on the mind, character, and general health. I could quote extensively from the volume, but I will not.” (Here I thanked him.) “Suffice it that the author asserts that, if it were not for defective eyesight, there would be no crime in the world
