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Hoping to make the Advocate of more interest to graduates and to the public, Edmonds is planning to include articles from graduates and men prominent in life, as well as undergraduate fiction and verse. An article is already promised from Thorvald S. Ross '12, and Edmonds hopes for contributions from such well-known writers as Heywood Broun '10, and Stephon Leacock. The undergraduates will remain alone in the fiction field, as well as in the book review department...
Professor Copeland spoke on the history of the Advocate, and urged upon the candidates the preference of writing "gentleman's essays" to producing ordinary fiction. He expressed his pleasure with the first number of the new Advocate and read selections from several authors...
...Author. Gertrude Horn, great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin, was born in San Francisco. She married and was widowed young ("one of the most important incidents of my school life"). She wrote travel books with the aid of a geography and claims the introduction to fiction of San Francisco's social life. It is her pride and habit to be "up" on things, especially international politics and psychology, which she discusses in a manner highly stimulating to the notables that throng her Manhattan apartment-salon. At the moment she is traveling in England where she has long been regarded...
...touring precursor of Nietzsche, which great Nordic, together with Composer Wagner, "discovered" Gobineau and made for him in Germany a reputation which he did not live to enjoy in his native France. These conflicts having somewhat subsided, in favor of Gobineau, there is space for attention to his neglected fiction. A fierce individualism dominates. Characters are wild, exotic types, not invented but recreated out of deep understanding and sympathy for people Gobineau came to know in his wide travels as a diplomat. The Dancing Girl of Shamahka involves the racial pride of Tartars suckled in a dizzy nest among Caucasian...
Freckles, her second book, has sold over 2,000,000 copies since its appearance in 1904 is some index to the degree of sorrow and disappointment the public must feel. A difference exists between a country's literature and its fiction. Mrs. Porter wrote none of the former and a great deal of the latter, sincerely compounding sweet sentiment with what hard-boiled editors call "nature stuff" and giving her main characters capitalized titles that were really poetic to multitudinous readers. The present volume retains this successful formula, telling the story of a Wounded Hero from the Great...