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Again, a story may depend on its plot for sustaining the reader's attention. Indeed if the plot can be made sufficiently attractive, the characters may be kept entirely in the background, as in the case in many of Poe's pseudo-scientific tales...
...Glee Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, assisted by Mr. Charles Williams '99, reader, and C. W. Locke '01, soloist, will give a concert at the Cambridge Latin School Hall tonight quarter of eight...
...author's earlier work, with some posthumous verse contains much that will be read with pleasure and more that is of indifferent merit. A sympathetic yet admirably frank introduction by Daniel G. Mason '95 gives an attractive picture of Mr. Savage as a man, and puts the reader in an appreciative mood. An ever-present love of nature is evident in nearly all of the poems. Especially do the shorter verses catch and hold this quality, happily phrased and musical as they often are. At times, however, there is too much of the observer and not enough of the poet...
...philosophy as the strongest expression of stoicism since the days of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. The letters contained in the volume throw much light on Shaftesbury's character and are all in Shaftesburys' best style. It is this portion of the book that is most helpful to the ordinary reader, for it enables him to understand better a great philanthropist, a sound thinker, and a deep student of human and ethical problems...
...Miss Zenson," by H. M. Ayres lacks life, does not hold the reader and is rather improbable...