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...particular literary merit. The first has to do with the pecuniary difficulties of a South American ranchman and senator, coupled with a bank failure. The second is only saved from being dull by the imaginative and novel style in which it is written. "In a Fog" is a lively bit of narrative. The two pieces of verse in the number are up to the usual standard of the Advocate...
...Debtor," by John Garrison, is burdened with an excess of very ordinary word painting and lack of restraint, but has a certain maturity of style that saves it from being commonplace. Perhaps the most entertaining bit of prose in the number is "A Christmas on Black Pearl Island," by S. Greenfield. In a few words a very distinct and altogether original incident is brought out, set in a style, erisp and interesting...
...occasional poems, five in number, are greatly superior to the others, showing care for detail and more ease and polish in the verification. The author's ideas are good and plentiful but unfortunately seem frequently to run away with the language they are couched in. For example, this bit from "Uncertainty," an otherwise serious bit of work...
...dignified and highly suggestive. "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory," read before the Phi Beta Kappa in 1898, is perhaps the best work in the book. The moral it teaches might be remembered to great advantage today by many of those in quest of the strenuous life. One bit, in a description of a recent Harvard-Yale football game, seems at this time particularly apropos...
...shove the bar along a bit, till it's what they call a goal...