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...past and other popular works on the same subject will, no doubt, be marked. Flandrau's well-known "Diary of a Freshman" and "Harvard Episodes", and other delightful memoirs of the same kind go more or less deeply into the undergraduate life, the pursuits of the students, and the quaint customs, like carving the benches of Sever, which became so firmly rooted and persist with such remarkable vitality...
EMILY OF NEW MOON-L. M. Montgomery-Stokes ($2.00). There is good pollyanity and bad pollyanity. This is good pollyanity-at least one can read it without wishing to rush out instanter and murder the first quaint child one sees. We have with us again the precocious girl orphan who confides in her diary and longs to be an author-the unsympathetic relatives who are won over by her shy independence - the Great Family Secret-the letters to Father in Paradise-etc., etc. But the peppermint sticks are tastier than the run of such literary peppermint sticks; the author knows...
...Story. The Canon of Gold was the meeting place of one of the most oddly assorted groups of characters in all fictional Arizona. There the two obtrusively quaint old "pardners," Thad Grove and Bob Hill, kept house with their adopted child, Marta Hillgrove, found in somebody or other's cabbage-patch in the past, and at the time the story opens just budding into radiant womanhood. There also lived the foul Lizard, Villain Number One ?and Saint Jimmy, who was just Tiny Tim grown up and wild about doing good to everybody. There also came Hugh Edwards?...
Woodstock, quaint village in Ulster County, N. Y., (heart of the Catskills) is the home of an arresting colony of painters, sculptors, craftsmen. They club together each summer for an exhibition by their own members, the fourth of which is now in progress...
...Mozart Festivals which were long an annual August feature at Salzburg, Mozart's birthplace, will hereafter be held at Baden-Baden earlier in the Summer. The reasons are practical. Salzburg was exquisitely appropriate, a quaint, ancient city in beautiful hill country. But it was awkward to get down to that section of Austria by rail, and Salzburg offered only mediocre accommodations for assembled tourists...