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There are several good pieces of fiction in the number. "An Unconventional Detective Story," by L. W. Mott and Louis How, and "Pot Boiling," by H. C. Greene, are amusingly written and have the additional merit of originality. In this respect alone are they superior to E. G. Knoblauch's "Even in Cambridge." Several of the Kodaks are pleasing, but the few other articles are unimportant if not uninteresting...
...Recollections of Thomas Hill Green," by Charles P. Parker, has the leading place in the Monthly for March. It will prove interesting to individuals doubtless, but the majority will turn more readily to the fiction of the number. The same might be said of "Thomas Hardy's Fatalism as Art," by W. T. Denison. Both articles are of the kind of which each Monthly contains one or more specimens,- serious subjects well treated, but without doubt intended to appeal to the individual or specialist rather than to the general class of readers...
...passing from one piece of fiction to another, the attention is caught by the contrast between Pierre la Rose's "Toy Drama" and the "Solitude" of H. C. Greene. The former is a well told story, interesting through its clever introduction and treatment of persons who are acting from the most common of human impulses. "Solitude," on the other hand, while well told, derives its whole interest from the trials of an individual whom philosophical doubts have thrown out of harmony with the world. The meaning of the story is evasive, and to many who search for it will probably...
...monthly for February is more than usually devoted to fiction. The number opens, however, with a somewhat lengthy consideration of "The Humour of Caucer," by J. B. Holmes, prolonged to such an extent that the interest of the reader is in danger of flagging before the end is reached. The articles which follow will be more pleasing to the average mind,- a poem called "Louie Rae," by Bliss Carman, and three stories...
...suggestion that the details of the chief character may have been taken from the works of that author. The remaining two stories, "An Undiscovered Sacrifice," by Felix Norris, and "The Murder," by W. T. Denison, are less interesting. They are of that rather negative merit which characterizes most college fiction, neither very good nor very...