Word: sketches
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Whether by accident or intention, the Harvard Advocate makes Incident, as distinct from Episode, the special feature of its issue of December 5. The Incident may be compared to a detail in a design, capable of being sketched apart, but with a certain incompleteness; the Episode is rather a design in a series--a thing necessary to the perfection of the whole, and yet complete in itself even when detached. In at least three out of the four contributions to the current Advocate, in which Incident is the motive, the suspended interest is admirably maintained. Mr. Schenck's "Paper Chase...
...most part well-written, though the time sequence is clumsily handled at one point. The description of the lover's symptoms is now and then extravagant, and if the same restraint had been observed throughout that appears in the conclusion, the effect would have been better. Mr. Dorey's sketch of "An American on the Thames" is amusing, though the humor is sometimes a little forced. Mr. Mayer's article on "Josiah Quincy" gives a suitable account of a career which ought to be of interest to Harvard men in every generation...
...Dance of Death," a difficult task. There is an atmosphere of weirdness and mystery about the showman and his tent in the great forest; but the author fails to vitalize sufficiently the figure of the young man. "The Inevitable," by E. B. Sheldon, is a pleasing little sketch portraying in symbolic form the passing of childhood. The only fiction in this number is "The Man Who Won," by H. B. Child. The story has a good climax, but the characters do not stand out clearly...
...following publications by professors at the University have recently appeared: The Greek Manuscripts of the Ambrosian Library, by Professor J. W. White; The Treasury and the Banks under Secretary Shaw by Professor A. P. Andrew; Historical Sketch of the Finances and Financial Policy of Massachusetts, by Professor C. J. Bullock; The English Classical School of Political Economy, by Professor T. N. Carver; The Development of Shakespeare as a Dramatist, Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick, Travellers' English, by Professor G. P. Baker; Die Stellung Amerikas sur Deutschen Kunst, by Professor K. Francke; Four Obscure Allusions in Herdu, by Professor...
...president of his class but who is absolutely out of the running. It reflects seriously both on the author and the editors that the third sentence should begin, "Being told, his face flushed." Contributors to the Monthly have usually been past this stage. Mr. A. W. Murdoch's dramatic sketch, "In a Park," seems to me a mistake in form. The theme would have lent itself better to treatment in a short story, where the author could, by more narrative and description, have helped the reader to visualize the scene with more ease...