Unclassified Masterpieces.
The Lees of Happiness.
Chicago Sunday Tribune (12 December 1920)
If you should look through the files of old magazines for the first years of the present century you would find, sandwiched in between the stories of Richard Harding Davis and Frank Norris and others long since dead, the work of one Jeffrey Curtain: a novel or two and perhaps three or four dozen short stories. You could, if you were interested, follow them along until, say, 1908, when they suddenly disappeared.
When you had read them all you would have been quite sure that here were no masterpieces—here were passably amusing stories, a bit out of date now but doubtless the sort that would then have whiled away a dreary half hour in a dental office. The man who did them was of good intelligence,
