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...first issue of the Advocate is a competent and well-balanced performance, maintaining a creditable level both of entrtainment and of literary merit, but nowhere rising conspicuously above that level. The verse so liberally sprinkled through the magazine seems to me on the whole better than the fiction, and the book-reviews and sketches more effective than the articles and editorials...
...stories are by Robert H. Chambers and Arthur K. Train, both fiction-writers of the second generation. Mr. Chambers' "A Long Time Between Ports" is the more expertly written of the two, but it has certain fundamental absurdities which seem to result from the failure of the author to think out his situation clearly. It is one of those tropical-island stories in which an untutored girl, brought up among the cocoanut palms, falls madly in love with the first young man she has ever seen, a gob landing from an American destroyer. How, one cannot help asking...
...When I first wrote to the Union announcing my subject," said Mr. Lincoln, after he had been introduced by H. H. Faxon '21, "I intended saying that I would speak on the New England character in American fiction. On thinking it over, however, I was horrified at the extent covered by that subject, and so I hastened to put character in quotation marks. This materially changed the nature of my talk, for as you know, much may be done by the change of even a letter. This was brought home to me by a heading in the paper...
Speaking last night in the Living Room of the Union on "The New England 'Character' in American Fiction," Joseph C. Lincoln declared that, despite many statements made twenty-five years ago to the contrary, New England was still an excellent field for writers. Mr. Lincoln also told many amusing stories illustrating different sides in the character of the Cape Codder...
...Harvard Union: Lecture "Modern American Fiction" by Mr. Joseph C. Lincoln...