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The Crime

THE CLASSICS

To hear this story we must interrupt a lecture in American literature. The professor was waxing enthusiastic:

"Hugh Jones, gentlemen, was a rare artist. And his greatest work was "suae generis", an inimitable masterpiece, alone of its kind."

After he had ceased to culogize, a bright young man was heard to ask, "Why in the world, sir, would an American give his book a Latin title? And what in the world does that funny name mean?"

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