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...Beginning with a careful article on "The Gay Lord Quex"--which has recently been so prominent about here--it proceeds with a lively newspaper story, a capital appreciation of Guy de Maupassant, and one of the most amusing and well-told hunting stories that has recently appeared in undergraduate fiction. These contributed articles, together with the pertinent editorial on the wearing of caps and gowns, realize more truly the aims of the Monthly than some of the numbers that have gone before have done...
...movement because of their attempt to accomplish a certain end by taking a certain attitude. The ordinary novel is objectionable, as Poe says, because it cannot be read at one sitting, but the combination of brevity and unity in the short story is its greatest charm. Every work of fiction depends for its success on its characters, its plot, or its action and circumstances. In character delineation alone there are many differences between the novel and the short story. While in the latter a character must catch the eye at once, in a novel a commonplace character can be tolerated...
...accuracy of its historical description, but rather in the deep and tender sympathy and comprehension of human nature that Thackeray has so marvelously expressed. In "Henry Esmond," in "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes" Thackeray showed that power which has placed him high among English writers--the power of creating in fiction, by his sincerity, by the brilliancy of his humor and the tenderness of his nature, characters that live in memory and can never...
...single article in the current number of the Advocate is so deserving of favorable mention as the editorial. It is a well phrased exposition on the use of local color in College stories, and is of interest to the large number of students contributing fiction to the College magazines. The stories are bright and entertaining; the verse musical, though somewhat conventional and the book reviews are as adequate as could be expected...
...current number of the Monthly is a pleasing combination of entertaining fiction, stimulating special articles and keen book reviews. It is however to be regretted that the men who contribute the stories have been forced so far a field in search of subject matter. The life around us is surely worthy of transcription...