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...fiction is a little lurid, but moral. To call it bookish is little more than to call it contemporary. H. Hagedorn, Jr., draws indeed from the night-life of Harvard: but one soon scents the moral thesis--a 'horrible example' to the text of the admirable sermon of the editorial: and soon recognizes Pengrove and Farrell for what they must have been to the author's own mind--less prodigals than premisses...
...fiction, "Sam Dodge: Lobsterman," an exciting tale, and "A Sleep and a Forgetting," a delicate psychological sketch, are by far the best. "Vanitas," by a graduate of another college, is but an inadequate account in would-be sarcastic vein of some phases of Harvard literary activity. "Coffee Pot" is chiefly a matter of hackneyed dialect, and "A Cruising Idyll," though interesting, is slight. "Romance for One" could hardly be more insipid...
...three pieces of fiction in the number, the story entitled "'Yaller' Igo," is the most skilful; the narrator knows his subject and presents his situation picturesquely. "Carter, Correspondent," if not permanently significant, is clever and within its limits, entertaining. The interest in "The Hunger of Phocides" does not pass the interest that inheres in incident for its own sake. The verse of the number is pleasing...
...fiction, with the possible exception of "The Duke's Daughter," which succeeds by not aspiring too high, is hard to read and decidedly unsatisfying. Two stories involving college men as characters are tiresome and force the suggestion that in the search for "filler" the editor's drawer is being taxed too heavily. It seems a pity that a story so well written as "From the Best of Friends," should be spoiled by lack of clearness; less length and an explanation of some strange conversations and unaccountable actions would save it from being classed with the other stories of the issue...
...Robinson's "Captain Craig" though somewhat cryptic in utterance and perhaps not free from what Professor James has lately called "oddity of emphasis," is nevertheless a hearty and deserved praise of a book of very unusual value and importance. Of the undergraduate articles, the essay on "Clever Modern Fiction" shows good sense of proportion and some felicities of phrasing; that on "Johnson and Addison" is clear and sound. The story "Don Decarnez" has atmosphere, though the ending is abrupt. Of the two poems the little "Requiem" is compact, well phrased and fresh in thought...