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...everyone. Mr. Roberts plays the absurdly romantic husband and self-centered statue of respectability even more ably. His part, however, is much simpler; he undergoes no upheaval and merely gets angry and then weakly desperate. Mr. Sircom, as the revengeful person who starts all the trouble, is impossible. Miss Birkbeck and Mr. Cleugh have succeeded in making themselves quite unnecessary...
...Birkbeck Wilson...
Other features of the issue are "The Country of the Pointed Firs," a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett; "The Johnson Club," being an entertaining description by George Birkbeck Hill of the meetings of Johnson enthusiasts; a sketch of provincial life by Mrs. Catherwood,"A Farm in Marne;" "Children of the Road," a study of child life among vagrants, by Josiah Flynt; and "The Schoolhouse as a Centre," by the editor of the magazine, a paper introducing the discussion of "The Status of the Teacher" in subsequent issues...
...lecturer next spoke of Dr. Birkbeck Hill's "Harvard College by an Oxonion." This book, said he, is an admirable account of the college from its earliest days to the present time. The writer has a pleasant, rather old-fashioned, literary quality, which lends itself better to narration and comment than to the making of any lively or complete impressions of our complex academic life at the passing moment. Dr. Birkbeck Hill was evidently deceived in one or two minor traits of college civilization by undergraduates with a taste for the American joke. In the main, this English writer...
...George Birkbeck Hill's interesting and valuable comments on Harvard life, he greatly regrets the lack here of any Hall or Common Rooms to help bridge the distance between teachers and pupils, and to be in some sort the center of the social life of the University. With such Common Rooms, and the hospitable gatherings in them, he had been familiar at Oxford, and so doubtless felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately...