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...second installment of that much heralded bit of college fiction, "Harry's Career at Yale," appears in this number and is as yet entirely without plot. We doubt very strongly whether many men would be impelled from the reading of the story to desert Harvard for Yale...
...America has been thorough. The characteristic of the three literatures during this time has been the reign of the novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism, and Imaginative Writing. The last subdivides into Drama, Poetry and Fiction. In all these branches, Realism, which in France began about 1840 as a revulsion from the violent romantic outburst which preceded it, has held sway and has spread to other lands. The growing tendency has been each year to subordinate the personal to the general, to reduce the importance...
...fiction realism is the strongest. The movement has aimed to depict life by a minute description of objects. It soon became an art documentaries and degenerated into naturalism. The original desire of the French novelist was, by the description of exterior features to bring about in the reader the effect of the antecedents of which this feature is the consequent. But as two persons are unlikely to be affected in the same way by a phase of life, the novelist to retain a leadership was obliged to seek novelty, what is rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal...
...Rational Cure," the only bit of fiction in the number, is an excellent piece of work. While the plot as a whole has no particular originality, there are a number of minor incidents which Mr. Hapgood has treated in a fresh and novel manner. The author has woven into his cloth several threads of Boston Bohemianism, Beacon Street society, and man's affection requited and the whole forms a fabric at once compact and pleasing...
Some excellent fiction appears in the number, among which is "The Squirrel Inn," by Frank R. Stockton. The poetry of the number is up to the Century's usual standard...