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TRANSLATIONS into verse, in order to pass muster, have to be very good indeed. A tolerable poem in a college paper can be excused, so long as it is original and has promise; but, versification being the only difficulty in translating, good versifying is the only merit of the translator...
WE commend to the perusal and profit of the editorial board of the foregoing publication the June number of the Abbott Courant. Though somewhat erratic as to its times of appearing, the Courant ranks among the best of its contemporaries. Bright, sensible, and unpretending, it has a strong personality which...
Jules Verne's extravagant stories have a sort of fish-hook interest about them. It is too often forgotten by those who criticise him severely that he writes for the young, and that almost all he publishes appears in a magazine for young folks. To my unscientific mind he succeeds...
THE Yale Lit for April is far superior to our other exchanges, and seems to be an interesting and highly creditable publication. Our high opinion of its merits, however, may be owing to our having taken immediately before it a large dose of other college papers. The prize oration on...
The Dartmouth's lines read thus, with the correction of an obvious misprint at the end of line sixth, whether due to the Advocate or the original we cannot say. They are taken from the "Faerie Queene."