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...management of the Latin Play has issued a number of attractive and elaborate placards announcing the play. These have been posted in the usual places and most of them have promptly been torn away. Even to men who have no direct interest in the play, this thievery will seem unusually despicable. The play is a large venture,-represents an immense amount of work, and is, at least, entitled to be unmolested. The placards have been put on sale and can be obtained for a few cents. The management expects that many men will desire the placards and has provided this...
Among the editorials it is pleasing to come upon one which champions that much abused course, English C. Unfavorable criticism of the course has had pretty free play lately, and has, it is to be feared, gone too far. The Monthly gives what would seem to be a better advised view of the situation than has been generally taken...
Just as in days when the fog shuts down about us in dense clouds and we see the impenetrable wall about us which we can never dare to approach; so in life when we are surrounded by troubles from which it seems impossible to escape, we must always go right forward and we will find that as we advance towards the thickest of our difficulties, they seem to recede from us and gradually as we step out with more courage, they disappear entirely...
...Tale of a Wayside Inn," by J. P. Welsh, is longer than the interest of the tale would seem to justify, but the remaining articles of the number are very satisfactory. Two hitherto unknown names appear as the authors of well written stories,-"A Summer Incident," by R. L. Raymond, and "The Exacting Story," by J. W. R., both comparing not unfavorably with the "Fragment of a Modern Tale," by J. Mack, Jr. "The Last Theme," by F. Johnston, is exaggerated, but its cleverness saves this from being objectionable...
...does not seem to be able to row smoothness...