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...only fiction of the number, "The Three John Briggses," has a certain originality of conception. It deals with the case of a fellow whose father wished him to go to Yale and who got out of the difficulty by sending a substitute to Yale and going himself to Harvard. His father visits him at the critical time of a Harvard-Princeton game, discovers the deception, but shows the usual leniency. Much of the action of the story is very natural, but there are one or two slips of construction and word-improprieties which are the effect of the whole...
...only fiction of the number is a story by Mr. Lovett entitled "The Coward." It is a reminiscence of war-times, the tale of a man who was apparently guilty of cowardice during a battle and who afterwards sacrificed his life to a mob in New York to save a negro. The plot is more or less chimerical but there are a number of vivid descriptions in it, - notably the account of the New York...
...short fiction of the number, "The Story of a Story," by Brander Matthews, is perhaps the most entertaining as well as the most original that has come from the pen of this gifted playwright for some time. Another good story is "Was It an Exceptional Case?" by Miss Matt Crim, which bears in certain features of theme and plot a striking resemblance to Mr. Howells' story. "+++n Imperative Duty...
...Ghostly" is a long and rather interesting story, though one is inclined to skip the preface which has almost nothing to do with the plot, and to begin the fiction at "Spoff's First Prayer." The story is well told, the scene laid in British Columbia, and the plot deals with a solitary hunter, who, compelled to spend the night in a deserted Indian village, meets there his hospitable ghost...
...Spent" is the chief fiction number of the magazine. Although rather well written, it deals with a plot not especially agreeable and rather drawn out. A few touches of description in it are well done...