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...directness of inspiration and first-hand freshness of speech. They are earnest, eager, painstaking and -- traditional. The author has not yet quite released himself from his models,--for a guess, Tennyson in poetry and Pater in the prose. Of the poems, "The Death of Penelope" is by far the longest flight; and it is well sustained. The poet's observation of the scenic world is close and sympathetic, and it is matched by considerable skill of descriptive phrase. Of briefer compass, the lyrics are not without charm, notably, "Weitschmerz," "The Vision of Heart's Delight," and "Laughter and the Rain...
...longest and most notable prose piece in the July number of the Monthly is "Leaf, Somebody's Son" by A. Calvert Smith. The author makes ingenious use of the small boy's point of view to relate a fragment of the Saga of Eric the Red. The difficult style is well sustained, and the story is remarkable for happily chosen details. The small space devoted to the inner plot will disappoint readers who admire Kipling's "Puck of Puck Hill" series...
...Whitney and Macdonald, pitching for the seconds, held the Newtonians in check throughout the game. The seconds scored four in the initial round when Coolidge, Harvey, Mason and Phillips hit safely and scored. The other two runs came in the third. Captain M. B. Phillips '15 secured the longest drive of the season, hitting the ball against the Stadium for a clean home-run. In this inning also, Cartmell singled, stole second and scored on an error. After this the seconds came near tallying, but the pinch hit was lacking at critical moments...
...with feelings of slightly greater assurance. But Harvard's defeat in the second period of the game last Saturday can to a great degree be attributed to the severity of a schedule which necessitated the playing of three championship games in nine days--one of them nearly the longest extra period game on record. Strengthened by the encouraging practice of the past week and the return of Captain Willetts and Phillips to the game, may Harvard team-play take a long step this evening towards bringing another championship to Cambridge...
From St. Petersburg Mr. Mears began the longest single part of his expedition, when he boarded the Trans-Siberian Express for a 10-day ride over 15,000 miles of Prussian and Siberian territory. A washout caused a delay of 18 hours at one point, and Mr. Mears said that American workers could have repaired it in 3 hours at most. By offering the engineer 20 roubles or $10 for every hour he made up, Mr. Mears was able to cut down the delay by about 8 hours, but the remaining loss was enough to make him miss his boat...