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...second installment of that much heralded bit of college fiction, "Harry's Career at Yale," appears in this number and is as yet entirely without plot. We doubt very strongly whether many men would be impelled from the reading of the story to desert Harvard for Yale...
...Rational Cure," the only bit of fiction in the number, is an excellent piece of work. While the plot as a whole has no particular originality, there are a number of minor incidents which Mr. Hapgood has treated in a fresh and novel manner. The author has woven into his cloth several threads of Boston Bohemianism, Beacon Street society, and man's affection requited and the whole forms a fabric at once compact and pleasing...
...Corbin's "The Answer" is the only excellent bit of verse in the number. Though it is a translation, it is charmingly, simple and graceful. It would be just as well if the author of "Sonnet" had a more appropriate title for his verse. Most men who are at all familiar with poetry are not unaware that fourteen lines of a certain metre and rhymed in a certain way constitute a sonnet. This particular "Sonnet" has several lines badly accencentuted and some expressions hardly poetical. The "Triolets" are neither delicate nor dainty although they are as good as many...
...Richard Henry Dana, which describes a voyage on the Grand Canal of China. The most charming part of the paper is that where Mr. Dana gives us a picture of the exquisite courtesy and politeness of a certain Chinese gentleman named U-u. This U-u showed a characteristic bit of Chinese courtesy-which might be recommended to Harvard men-when, declining to smoke more than one or two puffs of a cigar given him by a friend or to take more than one or two sips of wine, he said, not that they were too strong...
Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the issue is a half story, half sketch, by Austin Smith, entitled "Moontide." The scene of the events narrated is Boston and its surroundings, the Harvard Bridge and the Charles River, and the very familiarity of the background breeds not a contempt but a pleasure. The sketch-for it is, perhaps, more of a sketch than a story-gives in a few pages a delineation, at once life-like and pleasurable, an architect, poverty-stricken, aristocratic, and fairly intellectual, and of a concomitant fellow-being.- a governess,- with whom the architect eventually falls...