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...leading article of the number, a discussion of Professor James's teaching, is decidedly interesting, emphasizing the helpful arguments of "The Will to Believe" and explaining a formula of the writer's own on ethical learning. "Before a Statue of Achilles" is an entertaining poem by Mr. Santayana. The fiction of the number is composed of three short stories and an autobiographical sketch of French school life. "With the Morning," a story by H. M. Rideout is capitally written. The writer succeeds in making a readable tale out of an unpromising subject. On the whole the Monthly starts the year...
Last evening Mr. Lehmann gave a smoke talk at the St. Botolph Club in Boston, on "Rowing in Fiction and Fact...
Among the Essays on Literature in this volume are: "A Keats Manuscript," "A World Outside of Science," "Lowell's Closing Years at Camrbidge," "Local Fiction," and "The Next Step in Journalism;" while under the caption of "Life," Colonel Higginson discusses, among other things: "The Cant of Cosmopolitanism," "Anglomania and Anglophobia," "International Marriages," "The Test of Talk," "Overclubableness," and "Living by the Church...
Aspects of Fiction, and Other Ventures in Criticism. By Brander Matthews. pp. iv., 234. Post 8vo, Cloth, Ornamental, Uncut Edges and Gilt...
...romance called "Glamour," by the queerly named Meta Orred (Lippincott), has become a prevailing dinner-table topic. Since Poe and Monk Lewis, no writer has had a more powerful command of the gruesome in fiction. The author's real name has not been revealed...