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...fifth number of the Advocate, like the fourth has much excellent matter, the prose out-weighing the verse. By far the best piece of work in the number is a story entitled "From a Diary," by C. M. Flandrau. It is thoronghly artistic in every way. The plot is very simple - an ordinary love affair, - but it is worked out in exactly the right way. There is nothing unnatural in any of the conversations or situations, yet there is plenty of the unconventional and unexpected. The descriptions of the various Russian scenes which from the background of the story - morning...
...loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard man and his valet very conveniently fall off a wharf and are drowned! While the story, as a whole, has some good descriptions, the idea of it is highly improbable...
...attract the most attention is probably the new novel, "The Naulahka," by Rudyard Kipling and Walcott Bolestier, the latter a well-known American now living in London. This is Mr. Kipling's first experience in collaboration, and the story is not only international in authorship but also in plot. It opens on the bridge of an irrigating ditch in a Western State, and at the close of the first instalment there is already an indication of a change of the scene to India. The motive of the story is the quest of an American, Nicholas Tarvin, for a celebrated necklace...
...prose of the number could be classified under the general head of sketches, for there is scarcely a suggestion of a plot in the two articles which are avowedly fiction. "The Princess Barietinsky" approaches nearest of any of them to a story and is the most finished piece o prose of the number. The delineation of the character of the princess, a hypocritical Russian woman is the another's chief object and it is certainly well done. Her charming personality, the rapt admiration of Protopop off for her, and her detestable double dealing are vividly portrayed...
...number is a story by Mr. Lovett entitled "The Coward." It is a reminiscence of war-times, the tale of a man who was apparently guilty of cowardice during a battle and who afterwards sacrificed his life to a mob in New York to save a negro. The plot is more or less chimerical but there are a number of vivid descriptions in it, - notably the account of the New York...