Word: fictions
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...present issue of the Advocate, that word would be spontaneity. On one hand, spontaneity best characterizes the wide variety of subject-matter, the liberality of form and the exuberance of spirit, which are throughout apparent. On the other hand, spontaneity may account for a quantity of old-fashioned fiction out of proportion to its merit, and one or two lapses in the choice of words...
...book reviewer is on safe ground in describing the works under discussion; when he passes to generalizations about American fiction he becomes futile...
Three pieces of fiction are offered: "The Practicality of Joshua Wilkes," by Bruce Carpenter, a really constructive story with a clear outlining of the characters; "The Second Hungarian Rhapsody," by Douglas C. Wendell, well written but thin in plot; and "A Fable of Death," in which L. K. Garrison '19 attempts a form full of pit-falls, into most of which he stumbles. The Advocate used to do better in fiction. W. A. Norris '18 and Robert Cutler '16 contribute the verse. Mr. Norris's two sonnets have some fine sonorous phrases, in the making of which he is sometimes...
...single piece of fiction, Mr. Gazzam's "Tall Golden Moon" is sadly deficient in structure, and is indigestible as a story. It starts out with an apparent purpose, only to wind up nowhere in particular, without attaining that purpose or any other worth mentioning...
...comes in fun and stays at the lady's feet in earnest, turns out to be the butler's master. The complications arise over this visit to the gentleman's kitchen. Ultimately the fiance proves to be a bounder the butler is turned out and the novelist turns from fiction to romance and the butler's master...