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the plated city

by Perry Bliss

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A baseball novel by a United States editor and scholar, Bliss Perry. The book deals with labor problems and other social dilemmas in an industrial town, issues of race, gender and sex, one of the first novels featuring racism in pro baseball.

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...instructive to the mind, uplifting to the soul, and capable of being cordially recommended to every man, woman I had almost said child in Bar- tonvale. No one more appreciates this fact, or is more graterful to the founder of this Library who I regret is not with us to-day than I myself. There are, however " " There is no motion before us, Mr. Trellys, " remarked the chairman, quietly. Trellys flushed. The directors good-naturedly nodded their approval of the chairman's acumen ; and the stated secretary balanced her official pencil upon her forefinger with a fine air of indifference. "I will state the motion, then, " said Trellys, stiffly. 90 THE PLATED CITY The chairman bowed. "I move that all books which appear open to criticism on the ground of their moral influence be drawn only under the expressed permission of the directors, who shall hold themselves responsi ble for the character of every book hereafter to be purchased. " " This is an important motion, " said the chair man. "...