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...story "After Twenty Years," in the Advocate. The story which appears today is a student reminiscent sketch, depicting in a perfectly natural manner the abyss of mortification into which a particular seaside resort, a particular girl, and a particular masquerade ball plunged a certain college man. The plot is clever and well worked out and the language shows no inappropriate word or phrase...
...fiction of the number is of that class which is familiarly known as "light and readable," the kind with which one beguiles away an hour or so on the cars. "An American Rosalind" shows more or less cleverness of plot. The verse of the number is not of the highest order...
...raconteur is a charming little blackeyed French woman with a penchant for English slang and flirting-and the result is a delicate piquancy and delightful vivaciousness of style which is seldom characteristic of Advocate stories. There are one or two slight errors in the use of words, but the plot is original, and the story, on the whole, is very creditable to its author...
...After Twenty Years" stands in marked contrast to a "A Mutual Fraud" as regards character and treatment. It is a story reminding one of Hawthorne in its general simplicity and in certain descriptive touches. The plot of the story is slender and not particularly original, but the author counterbalances this by some truly excellent bits of description and character delineation. The old village doctor of Milford stands vividly before us, and the quiet humor of the first part stands in striking antithesis to the deep patnos of the latter part of the tale...
...caucus which meets for the nomination of an alderman. Several examples of the genus politician (including a man of unmistakable Irish accent), one or two jokes, and a short description have been poured into the author's crucible and the residuum is a political sketch, with no plot and of some interest...