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The first article in the current number of the Monthly, Professor Taussig's article on the late Professor Dunbar, as the record of a singularly active and varied life, is perhaps the most interesting of the number. As Professor Taussig points out, Professor Dunbar was little known to the undergraduates...
A part from one or two inconsistencies both story and dialect of "Uncle Willis Skimpy and the Cotton Bale," by T. N. Buckingham are carefully and well worked out. To the Southern reader, however, the use of Satan in dialect so marked as Uncle Willis's seems an unpardonable solecism...
Still less convincing is J. G. Forbes' "Two Points of View." The matter is not original, the treatment reminiscent, the atmosphere uncertain. The sketch, however, is not lacking in good points and some of the repartee has a very collegiate tone--"What's the use of a roommate if you...
One of the best stories in the number is "The Miracle of St. Anne." Those who know Canada will not fail to recall among their own acquaintance some such figures as the old cure, as Marie, as Pierre, or to remember a Sunday morning's mass in a riverside church...
The only critical essay in the number, on "The Catastrophe in Modern Tragedy," is excellent in its fundamental idea, but defective in expression. The statement of what the writer has in view is made in the opening paragraph, but so obscurely, and with so little stress, that it is soon...