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There follows bits of verse of varying merit by Messrs. Willcox, Sanger, Barlow, Whistler, and Murdock; an article on "Harvard and the Public Eye," by Mr. K. B. Murdock; and pieces of fiction by Messrs. J. W. Walcott, O. D. Douglas, and H. Jackson, Jr. In "Harvard and the Public Eye," Mr. Murdock, who seems to stand in great awe of the "Century"--he calls it the 'majestic' "Century"--points out the futility of trying to arrive at general conclusions about Harvard, unless one knows Harvard life thoroughly. In "The Treasure of Carvaernon" (the name in the story itself...
...Seldes appears here uttering. I think, his third lamentation over the deplorable condition of American fiction. In spite of his iteration, the reviewer is not convinced that American novels are as bad as Mr. Seldes believes, nor is he much enlightened by such a paradox as this: "They offer vividness, interest, lightness of touch, superficial interest; What perverse tenth muse broods over them, then, that they result only in stupidity, dullness, vanity, and vexation of spirit?" Can a vivid and interesting book be at the same time stupid and dull? Yet the article shows the author an acute observer...
...week place in the issue is the place that in an undergraduate magazine should by rights be the strongest, the fiction. One thinks longingly of the vigorous college stories of Paul Mariett and Lucien Price, the exquisite child stories of Chester Brown, the dramatic tales of High Society by Edward Sheldon; and wonders where the story-tellers are keeping themselves. In this number, they are not very well represented. "The Boy and Glenvil," by Mr. Burlingame, cries for compression, for composition in the painter's sense, the focusing of detail on the central figure and suppression of irrelevancies; "The Cursed...
Collection of Books of Fiction...
Phillips Brooks House is making a collection of recent books of fiction to be distributed among soldiers in garrisons throughout the country. Men willing to spare any such books should send them to H. F. Root '13, social service secretary, at Phillips Brooks House...