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...stories, "Little Brother" is undoubtedly the best. Its characters are Harvard men who do not "merely sleep in Cambridge," as a recent reviewer has remarked of most undergraduate heroes of fiction; it has atmosphere and color, and a sufficient plot; and in its fundamental idea that straightforward honesty is the surest means of success it emphasizes one of the most cherished of Harvard ideals. The other two stories are well written, but neither is strikingly original. The greybearded spinner of the impossible story of "Dead Man's Pine" is vividly and convincingly drawn, and the inconsistencies of his yarn...
...Inner Temple, since 1894. He first made a name for himself on the stage as Mr. Crichton in "The Admirable Crichton." Two years ago he accomplished a noteworthy success as Hamlet at the Adelphi Theatre in London. Mr. Irving has also written some interesting books of biography and fiction...
...present number of the Advocate offers a genial assortment of philosophy, poetry and fiction. The philosophy is given us editorially as well as in a contribution "On the Difficulty of Taking Oneself Seriously...
...best fiction in the number is "When Granada Came to Almeria." It is interesting from beginning to end, and in certain parts (notably in the cathedral scene) it is to an unusual degree imaginative...
...startling possibilities in which nature ever meets us with wondrous surprises. Again and again fertile minds startle us with inventions which would have seemed supernatural to the past generation. Is it too much to suppose that in the higher realms of a world where "truth is stranger than fiction" we may not discover the great truth of Immortality? Hope cannot live without immortality, and life cannot go on without hope...