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...other stories, "The Unregenerate" by O. LaFarge, '21, is an amusing satire on the reformers who would take all the joy and spontaneity out of life, but is so hazy that the reader does not care very much what happens to the characters; while "Angelo," by S. S. Rogers '22, is too conventional, too theatrical, to achieve fully the effect which the author intended...
...college literary magazines are written, not to entertain the undergraduates and their friends, but to meet the requirements of some course in English Composition, and are subsequently turned over to the editors because they receive professional praise? An excellent theme may or may not be interesting to the general reader. If it is on The Abolition of the Forward Pass, it will probably be read by the college community. If it is on Sunset by the Shore, it probably will not be. The first task of the editors of a magazine is to interest their readers; and the best editors...
...child-like cannibals in the vale of Atuona, under the peak of Temotiu, has already won rank as a classic among books of travel. Although its author will never be held a great stylist, he is supremely readable. What is more important, he has the power to make his reader see the scenes which he describes so colorfully and know the quaint characters that live between his pages...
...passages the volume consists of pure description; chapters are interlarded which are almost unsurpassed as examples of the short story; now and again the writer indulges in the speculative essay; all so instinct with warmth and life and motion as to carry the reader quite out of himself...
...Broken Barriers, or Red Love on a Blue Island," is perhaps even more mirth-compelling in its descriptions of utterly foolish incidents following a shipwreck; treated with a vigorous hand, it hurls chunks of humor, as it were, at the reader, who, if he be in the right mood, finds his vision obscured at times by tears of laughter. Uncontrollable chuckling seizes him at Mr. Brown's ludicrously chivalrous attitude to his fair companion on the desert isle and their common adventures it is only a pity that the ending is rather weak...