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Perhaps this is sometimes unfortunate, for toward the last Lane wrote at times in a tenor of depression, at times under a great nervous strain in a tenor of lightness bordering on hysteria. Here the reader will feel that he is not with the Lane whom he has followed for the years of his public life...
...Drury, through his long and intimate connection with St. Paul's School, has had an unexcelled opportunity to observe and to study the thoughts, the hopes, and the fallings of youth. When he undertakes, therefore, to "show the young reader what are the best things in our common day", it is certain that the young reader will find Dr. Drury's thoughts well worth listening...
Perhaps we shouldn't have classed Mrs. Loring's book as a "Western novel". That may condemn it yet unread to many a reader. But it will commend it to as many more; so we will not retract...
...hands of those who read as they run and run as they read". And this statement by the author sums up the whole proposition very neatly, in that the book is imbued with the "running" fever; the author runs--jazzily, rejoicing in his own self-confessed naughtiness; and the reader runs likewise--mainly in aimless, frantic circles! Until finally both author and reader are hopelessly weary of themselves, the book, and each other. There is not even the jauntiness that at least justified Fitzgerald's earlier works; he has fed his muse on modern highballs...
...prints included in the collection, These prints were given to the Library by Mr. Shaw and by bequest of Mr. Evert Janson Wendell '82. The catalogue will be modeled after that of the British Museum and will describe the prints in sufficient detail to enable a reader to identify any print of which he is doubtful. The catalogue is to-be arranged alphabetically according to the name of the person portrayed and will give such details as description of the subject, size, engraver, printer, date, and whether the print is an engraving, woodcut, mezzotint, or caricature. At present the catalogue...