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...light and trifling, not wholly uninteresting, but of no great merit. And then come the Kodaks, And with one exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready not bad. The second is a fair bit of description but is destinctly not a College Kodak. After reading the third over three times, we continue to wonder why it was printed. The fourth is the work of a cynic and the fifth seems very far fetched...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 12/13/1892 | See Source »

...bit verse called the "Rollicking Fool and the Weeping Maid" is worthy of mention both for its jolly swing and its deep underlying thought. The "Epitaph for a Poet" is also an attractive thing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 12/13/1892 | See Source »

...every way interesting and delightful. The work of the orchestra was as usual almost faultless and the standard which is usually applied to its work, a standard which may fairly he said to apply in this country to the Boston Symphony Orchestra alone, was not a bit lowered. Miss Priscilla White, the soloist, made a most favorable impression. Her voice is of excellent quality and is used with good taste and great accuracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Symphony Concert. | 12/2/1892 | See Source »

Miss Wilkins has a bit of a "pastel in prose" entitled "After the Rain." It is very simple; it is rather pretty; it is printed because Miss Wilkins wrote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Christmas Century. | 12/1/1892 | See Source »

...Fair Exchange" is a jolly bit of writing and very well worked up. It is as brief and straightforward as it well could be and is assuredly delightful. It is really quite funny and as one thinks it over, one can not help laughing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 11/19/1892 | See Source »

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