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Henry James.--Author of many works of fiction. He attended the Law School in 1862 and 1863. He is a native of New York, but has lived many years in England...
...style, this brief history of the team is clear, businesslike, and, except for the self-effacement of the great player who wrote it, impartial. The anonymous "Review of the Yale Season" appears to be the carefully consecutive story of a team which the author does not overrate. The fiction, "Formation Z" and "Fussing the Game" presents in new combinations the never-failing elements of gridiron and girl. The short editorial article, though not nutritious, is harmless and pleasantly flavored...
...only piece of fiction by Clarence Britten is not vital or significant enough to balance all the excellent criticism. Delicate, studied, as his stories always are, this one is a good example of the lack the average reader feels in them. One never feels he understands the people; one does not feel sure they understand each other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long...
...Pichel in his helpful "note" on Strindberg,--which, by the way, was written before Strindberg's death--does not find it necessary to be so vehement. That "note" suggests the query, whether or not it looks well to have the items on the title-page all labelled "verse", "essay", "fiction" and so forth--although of course this helps the worried reviewer...
...fiction of this number is interesting, Mr. M. Britten's "Poetastors", although clever, is not perfectly successful: it is a tale of the mismating of two half-baked literary souls, and the diction is rich with expressions like "she glimpsed his profile." Mr. Seldes' "The Other Crucified" is a too daring conception skillfully carried out except at the climax, where naturally it must be inadequate. "The Necklace of Death," by Mr. Skinner, is a good Indian yarn by one who knows the Indians; yet his properties get him into trouble in the middle of the narrative. The verse shows...