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...rather obscure verse by Ernest Green Dodge 1G. The book abounds in striking phrases, with now and then an original thought, but throughout the first poems runs a note of artificiality that often hides altogether the idea of the author. This perhaps is responsible for the bewilderment of the reader who looks seriously for a purpose in the verses, for something more than an outre style of phrase or rhythm. In "The Twilight of the Race," for example, the elaborate simplicity in many places approaches the absurd, for it seems studied, not natural. The best work in the book...
...current number of the Monthly appeals strongly to the reader at the start. "The Story of John Reilly, Teamster," which is signed "1883" is a vivid sketch based on a tragedy of family life--the mistaken striving of an Irish girl toward a life which was too dazzling for her ignorance to resist, and the savage grief of her disappointed brother. "In the Thirsty Land" by Rowland Thomas takes its color from the South African war, but it is by no means a common place treatment. Simple pathos is interwoven with a powerful description of the mazes of a wounded...
...example, is good, but no one must be allowed to miss it; therefore we find a line of italics clamoring for attention. All danger of losing the point is in this way cleverly avoided. On the following page, too, there is a naive little aside, which informs the reader that he must not attempt to see through the appended joke. The caution seems needless, though the merit of the illustration excites false hopes...
Beginning with the admirably illustrated anecdote about "the young man of Laconia," the reader finds something cheerful on nearly every page of this week's Lampoon. The drawing really deserve praise, for instead of attempting the conventional girl engaged in repartee with the usual dress coated man, they are refreshingly funny, and numerous...
...Evidently the Lampoon. with commendable industry, prefers four years of work to three fo acquring an A. B.; and it has taken an amusing way of saying so. The "By the Way" column runs short of puns toward the end, but this may be a thoughtful concession to the reader. All the rest of the reading matter, with some slight exceptions, is bright and the episode of the unfortunate CRIMSON candidate is so life-like as to suggest actual experience on the part of the author...