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...Boston weekly, shows that the miniature magaazine fad is still rampant. The little paper is a purely local affair with a considerable amount of purpose, if one may judge from the first number. Taverner, late of the Boston Post, is assisted by a Booktaster, a Story-teller, a Gossip, a Reformer, a Playgoer, and a Diletante. Beside these regular departments, Number One contains an article by Margaret Deland and poems by Louise Chandler Moulton and Marguerite Merington...
...very few men in college knew anything about it. Influenced somewhat probably by Pennsylvania's action in sending her team into the country the week before the Princeton game, the coaches decided that it would be an advantage to get the men away from all the football talk and gossip of Cambridge, and help them to escape the numerous friends and acquaintances who clamor for news of the team's progress. Lee's Woodland Park Hotel at Auburndale was selected as the place and here the men will spend their nights up to the time of the Yale game...
...Monk Lewis-An Unknown Celebrity," Lindsay T. Damon gives a study of Matthew Gregory Lewis, translator, novellist, and ballad-monger of the early part of this century. "Three Recent Essayists" is best described in the words of the author as "a gossip in personalities, suggested by their treatment of Dumas"; the personalities being those of Mr. H. E. Henley, Mr. Andrew Lang, and Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson...
...University Preachers, "The Voice of Tennyson" by Henry Van Dyke and the second chapter of the "Cosmopolis City Club" by Washington Gladden. "The Voice of Tennyson" is one of the best articles in the number. It is written "to record a memory" not to enter into any trivial gossip over Tennyson's life and works. Mr. Van Dyke describes the poet as he reads "Maud" and shows us how singularly beautiful and strange this reading was. He says, "It was not melodious or flexible, it was something better. It was musical, as the voice of the ocean...
...fiction, "Our Tolstoi Club" by Dorothy Prescott is decidedly the best, if we except the two serials. It is an amusing story, filled with palpable hits at the provinciality and gossip of a Boston suburb. How "Gay's Romance," by the author of "The Anglomaniacs," will turn out, it is hard to say; the first chapters are not uninteresting...