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...produces a very full and clear impression in a page of remarkably simple almost matter of fact narrative. "To Say the Least: Ungentlemanly," by H. Williams, Jr., is much in the Stockton vein. The off-hand rapidity of the action is most admirably suited to its impossible but amusing plot. "By Two," by F. M. Alger, is as good as it is hard to characterize...
...action of the play centers about the discovery of the concealed child as an off-spring of the line of David, his revelation to the faithful Jews by the High Priest, and the subsequent defeat and death of the queen Athalie. The plot is briefly as follows...
...modern French society it is extremely interesting. An intensely Puritanical New England girl, left a rich widow, marries a French nobleman, chiefly for his title and later discovers that he is more or less of a blackguard. Some incidents of the Franco-Prussian war are woven into the plot in an interesting way, although there is no actual fighting. The characters are not as clearly drawn as some in her earlier works, being rather conventional, but the plot is carefully constructed, although the ending is rather unsatisfactory and suggests the "Prisoner of Zenda." As a whole the book is interesting...
...plays there is almost no plot; the interest is rather absorbed in character painting and humor. His style is conformed to his characters for he believed that the style should characterize the speaker throughout...
...number of the Advocate which comes out today is hardly up to the standard. The best thing in it is a "Change of Costume," by R. F. Maynard, and although the plot has seen better days; it is worked up very simply and naturally to the only possible conclusion. A sonnet, "Spiritus Victus Amore," is the kind of a poem one of which is almost sure to turn up in every number; it reads along smoothly enough and does not mean anything in particular. G. H. Scull contributes a rather vivid sketch of life on the Banks suggested perhaps...