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
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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
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