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...been skilful, for the number steers with striking evenness between heaviness on the one side and more fooling on the other. There is, however, some good fooling in it, for instance the thoroughly deserved burlesquing in "The Adventures of the Harvard Man" of some recent pictures of him in fiction. Decidedly amusing, too, are the lines "B. C. or A. D." It is a pity that the only other piece of verse, "The Indian Runner," which is admirable in its first stanza, falls off so badly in its second. It is almost prose at the end. There are cleverness...
...Makers of English Fiction", by W. J. Dawson...
...Comparative Literature 1, "A General Survey of European Literature." Professor Schofield's course on the "Literary History of England and the Continent from the Norman Conquest to Elizabeth," which was formerly English 42, is now called Comparative Literature 6. Professor Bliss Perry will give his new course, "Types of Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" under the name of Comparative Literature...
...lectures today and next Wednesday, Mr. Copeland will discuss Defoe as the author not only of "Robinson Crusoe", but of "The Journal of the Plague", "Moll Flanders", and other less known works. The discussion will involve brief comparison of Defoe with other masters of illusion in prose fiction...
...Bookman-"The Sustained Interest and Some Recent Books, by F. T. Cooper '86; "Factitious Fiction and Fictitious Fact," by J. A. Macy '99: "The Obstinacy of Mr. Clyde Fitch," by E. E. Hale '83; "History in Elegant Extracts," by E. Fuller...