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...although not so replete with good things as the last issue of this paper, has some excellent matter in it. The best story of the number in it. The best story of the number is "The Masquerade Ball." Mr. DeWolf, its author. has dealt in this particular bit of fiction with scenes and people widely different from those he delineated so well in his story "After Twenty Years," in the Advocate. The story which appears today is a student reminiscent sketch, depicting in a perfectly natural manner the abyss of mortification into which a particular seaside resort, a particular girl...
...fiction of the number is of that class which is familiarly known as "light and readable," the kind with which one beguiles away an hour or so on the cars. "An American Rosalind" shows more or less cleverness of plot. The verse of the number is not of the highest order...
...alleged relations between the two great commanders. Mr. Conway comes to the conclusion that so far from Frederick the Great having given Washington a sword, no gift was ever sent by him to the American general, and "he never recognized in any remark the greatness of Washington." The fiction of the number is very diversified, includiug a new installment of Dr. Eggleston's "Faith Doctor;" a story "There were Ninety and Nine," by the new edit of Harper's Weekly, Richard Harding Davis; the conclusion of Hopkinson Smith's "Colonel Carter of Cartersville;" and "A Race Romance," the last...
...first fiction of the number, "How We Routed the Ghosts," is, as its title indicates, a modern ghost story, and a local one at that. The plot of the tale is very slender, the language is at times ill chosen and the humor is so excessively fine as to be almost imperceptible...
...them are the libraries so well equipped or so generally used as at Harvard. The statistics at Yale show that the percent of students using the library is much below that of Harvard; and that of the books which are used, by far the greatest portion are works of fiction. Such facts would seem to indicate that the method of conducting the courses at Harvard is largely to account for the increased use of general literature. This method is to unite, with regular text-books, a large amount of outside reading. At the other colleges this plan...