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...dramatic art, Racine's tragedy is founded upon the heroic fable. Racine had for prototypes the plays of Euripides, in Greek, and of Seneca, in Latin. He differs widely from Euripides, who has a different hero, but he is very similar to Seneca, both in treatment of plot and character. Profiting by the experience of his two classical models, Racine has given us the finest profane tragedy of the French drama...
...plot of the play, the libretto of which was written by R. M. Townsend '96, follows...
...study of any novel of Hawthorne, Thackeray or George Eliot with special reference either to the treatment of the plot or to the methods of characterization or to both...
...Unbegotten Sons" is the most mature piece of fiction which has appeared in the Monthly for a long time. While the plot in a certain way is unreal, it is treated with unusual richness of imagination. The style is vivid and sensuous. It is pity that the author's analysis is not equal to his imagination. He brings together twin brothers, who see in each other no resemblance. They address each other as "child" and "old man" respectively. The Abbe of Cisley hates them with the most undying hatred because they were the illegitimate sons of his wife...
...Tangent," by Edward H. James, is by all odds the cleverest story in the Monthly. Of it may be said as has been of Henry James's novels that "the characters lounge, and the plot proceeds out of their mouths." The interest in the story is all in the dialogue and in the subtle shades of feeling which are connoted with great nicety. The story has a peculiar charm in that the interest in it lingers after the last word has been read. Understanding as we do that "Tangent" was written some years ago, we can not help bewailing that...