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Next in order of merit we would select "The Blue and the Grey," a story of the Civil War. That familiar piece of fiction which has for its theme the young southern officer, carrying despatches amid impossible difficulties, the Battle of Gettysburg and the tiresome elaboration about the relative positions of the opposing forces, is here, held up to a heavy barrage of ridicule. This sarcasm in turn is directed against the detective story of today in "Who do You Thing Did It? or The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery"--only the final outcome is not in accordance with the usual...
...doctrine, as Samuel Johnson said of Dr. Blair's "is the best limited, the best expressed; there is the most warmth without fanaticism the most rational transport." VOLUMES CHOSEN FOR REVIEW IN THE CRIMSON'S CHRISTMAS BOOKSHELF December 18, 1920. OUTSTANDING PUBLICATIONS OF 1920. CLASS TITLE AUTHOR PUBLISHER Fiction. Main Street. Sinclair Lewis. Harcourt. Travel. White Shadows in the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien Century. Biography. Theodore Roosevelt, and Autobiography Scribners. Essays. Dame School of Experience. Samuel Crofters Houghton Miffin. Letters. Familiar Letters of William James. Atlantic Monthly. Poetry. Heavens and Earth. Stephen Vincent Be net Henry Holt. Humor. Winsome...
...faults of these two numbers of the Advocate are the weakness or obscurity of some of the essays on literary matters and the dearth of good fiction. "Beneath the Cliff," by Mr. M. A. Kister, in the June number, though perhaps decadent in spirit, shows undeniable power. And in the Class-Day number the fifth of Mr. J. F. Leys' "Billet Ballads" has real fun in every line. But there are not enough such contributions. Except in the field of politics, the essays are somehow strained and dull...
...Narratives are of two kinds. One of them history, deals with real events; the other, fiction, with imaginary ones. This last, when used to inculcate a moral, we call fable or parable. The Bible is full of both kinds of narratives. The book of Jonah is a case in point...
...order to add to the Union Library a representative collection of modern French and other foreign literature, Professor Roy K. Hack of the Department of the Classics, is to make a trip abroad this summer and in behalf of the Library Committee purchase a number of foreign works of fiction and books on other subjects. With the present exchange rate, it is expected that the library will be one of the most complete of its kind in this country in that field...