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...warns the modern boxer against ancient errors of form and cites several illustrations. Those who are inclined to take "a bout with the gloves" should not fail to read this paper, so replete with valuable instructions. The best story of the number is "Gert," a most delightful bit of fiction, whose plot is laid on the wilds of the frontier. The characters delineated are out of the ordinary run and are beyond the daily experiences of those even whose lot is cast in the least developed of our Western settlements...
...Love as an Extra," by Norman Hapgood-the only fiction in the number-is not a story of action or of incident, but rather one of character delineation. The different moods of the hero are vividly drawn, and although the scene with the other principal character-the heroine-does not seem to have the force it should possess, the story as a whole gives a clear and correct picture of one of a class of men who, as the author says, "were prominent at Harvard a decade...
There is the usual array of fiction and of verse, the former by M. L. Cobb, John Codman 2d, Alice Morse Earle, etc. The "Omnibus" department at the end of the magazine contains some Harvard anecdotes...
...Fiction is out in full array; Mrs. Burton Harrison contributes "Penelope's Swains"; Joel Chandler Harris writes a dialect story called "Balaam and his Master," and Mary E. Wilkins a sketch "Emma...
...Fiction by no means predominates in this number. Besides Tolstoi's story there is one by E. H. Crosby called "The Professor's Daughter" and an installment of the serial "Mademoiselle Reseda," illustrated by McVickar, with whose types the editor's Drawer of Harper's has made us familiar. These with a few verses go to make up the number...