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...Massachusetts' as a Dormitory," by K. McLeod '05; "On Relations with the College Office;" "The Counsels of Lampon," by O. Bates '05; "Songs of Sunlight," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "An Exhibition of Modern Engravings," by T. H. Thomas; "The Ocean Lover," by R. E. Bates '05; "Hilda's Quest," by W. R. Nelles '05; Book Notices...
...Sheridan, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Southey, and others in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. The program will be as follows: "The Ballad of East and West," Kipling; Mrs. Malaprop, "The Rivals," Sheridan; "Wives in a Social Game," Anonymous; The Village Dressmaker. "Timothy's 'Quest," Kate Douglas Wiggin; "The Cataract of Lodore," Southey; "A Female Jury," Arlo Bates; "L'Envoi," "The Seven Seas," Kipling...
...other hand, is graceful, dignified and highly suggestive. "The Kingdom, the Power and the Glory," read before the Phi Beta Kappa in 1898, is perhaps the best work in the book. The moral it teaches might be remembered to great advantage today by many of those in quest of the strenuous life. One bit, in a description of a recent Harvard-Yale football game, seems at this time particularly apropos...
...takes refuges with the mountain trolls, but fearing to commit himself forever to their fantastic life, returns to his own people. From them his failings cause him to be exiled. He returns, however, in time to witness the death of his mother, after which he starts on a romantic quest after authority and empire. Next, Peer Gynt appears as a fabulously rich merchant prince, and his wanderings in several climes are portrayed, but his worldly life is not sufficient to blot out the old Peer Gynt. Finally, he returns to Norway, unsatisfied, and restless, to seek the love...
...Winston Churchill (MacMillan and Co.) may be briefiy described as one of those books which it is hard to lay down until finished. It describes the adventures of a young American author, the Celebrity, who disguised under an incognito, visits a summer resort by the great lakes, in quest of a very charming young woman whom he wishes to marry. Meanwhile the man whose name he has assumed, takes the opportunity to decamp with various embezzled monies. The Celebrity accordingly falls into some trouble, the police being in hot pursuit and finally escapes to Canada. Intentionally or otherwise, the author...