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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>This article was published in may 1902 in [[The Critic]]. <br />
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It announces the publication of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s novel [[The Hound of the Baskervilles]], and includes a manuscript letter from [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] to Bertram Fletcher Robinson (dated 26 january 1902).<br />
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[[File:the-critic-1902-05-p390-houn.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The Critic]] (may 1902, p. 390)]]<br />
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In reviving [[Sherlock Holmes]] and writing a new story around the exploits of that magician among detectives, [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. Conan Doyle]] undertook a dangerous thing, but in "[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]" he has succeeded in making as thrilling a story as the one that [[William Gillette|Mr. Gillette]] has embodied in his play. I understand that [[The Critic|THE CRITIC]]'s esteemed contemporary, ''[[The Bookman (UK)|The Bookman]]'', will devote its May number almost exclusively to the laudation of [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. Doyle]] and his detective stories. It is said that the reading of these stories is the absorbing passion of the senior editor of ''[[The Bookman (UK)|The Bookman]]'', and that when a new number of the ''[[The Strand Magazine|Strand]]'' arrived with an instalment of "[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]" in it he shut himself up in a room with his pipe and the magazine and denied himself to all visitors until he had read the story. I can easily understand one banishing himself with a copy of the complete story in his hand, but not with the scraps that are printed from month to month. It seems to me that "[[The Hound of the Baskervilles]]" is a book to take and finish in a reading. Certainly no one can take it up without reading to the end — and woe betide the person who interrupts him. <br />
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File:the-critic-1902-05-p391-houn.jpg|[[The Critic]] (may 1902, p. 391)<br />
File:the-critic-1902-05-p392-houn.jpg|[[The Critic]] (may 1902, p. 392)<br />
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