Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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The current number of the Monthly is a pleasing combination of entertaining fiction, stimulating special articles and keen book reviews. It is however to be regretted that the men who contribute the stories have been forced so far a field in search of subject matter. The life around us is...
"The Three Year Plan" by Professor Hall is a remarkably sane and clear presentation of the tendency towards a shortening of the College course. The point that the increased weekly number of lectures necessary to the three-year plan will diminish the hours spent in actual work is well taken...
The preliminary stage-setting of "Two's Company" by J.G. Forbes is unjustified and over-elaborate; the plot, too, is slight; but the keen criticism of life running through the story keeps up the interest to the end.
W.C. Arensberg's "Translations from the German," are rendered with a delicacy of feeling and a deftness of touch worthy of their originals.
"The Spirits that Prevailed," by B.B. Lee has well-sustained movement and succeeds in catching much of the romance and mysticism of southern life.