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...written, and he gained the same amount by "No Name." Lord Beaconsfield profited little by his earlier books, but from "Coningsby" downward the gains were considerable, and he must have cleared at least L30,000 by his writings. It is probable that "Endymion" will be remembered as the latest novel for which many thousands have been paid down, as the new practice of issuing cheap editions after the first flush, in order to stop the sale of the second-hand copies which are flung upon the market by the large circulating libraries, has a decidedly cheapening tendency...
...recent announcement that the pseudonym "J. S. of Dale" concealed no other than Mr. Frederick G. Stinson, a graduate of the class of 1876, at Harvard, is not at all in the nature of news to the many readers of this popular novel "Guerndale." The secret of his authorship had transpired long before Mr. Stinson felt it convenient to give his authority to the rumor. The announcement was made we believe, at about the time of Mr. Stinson's application for admission to the author's club of New York...
...Guerndale" is at present probably the most popular of the numberous novels written by recent graduates of Harvard and seems to have struck the Harvard student as the best exposition of Harvard life we have. The novel of course does not deal alone with Harvard, but the society it depicts, and the men it describes are all distinctly of Harvard origin and give it peculiar interest to the "young men from Cambridge" as the New York Times calls Harvard students The reason for the popularity of "Guerndale" is evident to one who compares it with the ordinary run of books...
...Grant's next literary venture of any importance was his novel called "The Confessions of a Frivolous Girl," which met with considerable success. His latest novel, "An Average Man," now running in the Century, does not come up to the expectations of his admirers; although the story started out in a bright and interesting style, the later numbers are hopelessly dull. The fact that two of the writers in the current Century are recent Harvard graduates, and the success of Life, show that in the fields of literature at least young Harvard graduates are making themselves known...
Stories seem in many cases to be written to fill up. In the Advocate we are led on to the sickening conclusion of a farce by the wonderfully novel way of awakening from a dream. (Trinity Tablet...