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...McLane is not bound, either by ignorance or inclination, to any one time or place or subject, and the best proof of this is in the excellent balance of his book. It contains one long poem, "Cassandra". a rather shorter one entitled "The Fig Tree", and many sonnets and miscellaneous poems of varying length. At the end of the volume is a sequence of poems some of which appeared in his previous work "Spindrift, forming an elegy...
There was a time when our ancestors were charged with not having lived up to the reputation which tradition and the historians had bestowed on them. Then, the burden of proof was on them to show that their place in our school text books was deserved. Now the pendulum has swung the other way. The mayor of New York has appointed his Commissioner of Accounts, Mr. Hirshfield, to conduct an inquiry on historical text-books. It is not now a super-idealization of our ancestors which is supposed to be a corrupt influence, but rather the interpretation of early American...
These are serious charges. They are the more serious coming, as they do, from a Senator, speaking in the Senate, rather than from a novelist, whose work may permissibly be a little over-colored. But so far, neither Senator Watson nor John Dos Passos has produced any definite proof. A novel, with fictitious names, means nothing; the same is true of a photograph without other facts, of vague and general telegrams and of "somebody-told-me" evidence. Most of us are from Missouri; give us the date, place, persons involved. Then we will sit up and take notice...
...early to criticise. The proof of a ruling is in its application. This experiment is an attempt to make the senior feel his own responsibility. Perhaps it will solve for Dartmouth the difficult problem of balancing utter freedom with necessary restraint...
...description. "The Stockbridge Elms" by Mr. Rogers is charming, and I take it that the strange punctuation in the reviewer's copy is not Mr. Rogers' but the printer's. (One of the rewards of the reviewer, by the way, is that the Advocate comes to him in uncorrected proof, so that he can enjoy the full shock of reading in Mr. McLane's poem...