Word: authorized
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...view, which is unusually well realized and sustained. It is distinguished from the other two stories by greater maturity of manner and evenness of development. These other stories are at once unconvincing in content and ragged in style. A "Double Campaign" contains a sufficiently humorous idea, which, however, the author has not taken time or has not the skill to develop; and it is written in an ejaculatory style, tiresome event for two pages. In "The Landing of an English Snob," an idea not very humorous in itself is treated with some incidental humorous touches. All three stories share...
...Murray first showed the significance of the word "logos," or man's words, which in early times contained practically the sum of human knowledge. In those days when a book was written it was considered the property of the author; it was to be kept from the public and especially from the professional writer. All things that were worth being recorded were termed "grammata" by the Greeks and the writer was a "grammaticos." As a book was intended solely for the author it was written in a form that was practically impossible for another man to decipher. Hence arose...
...Paris as the "husband of Helen of Troy, mortally wounded by the arrow of Philoctetes" and of Oenone as "a demi-goddess--who can heal mortal wounds--and the love of Paris until he saw Helen" ought not to be necessary in a college community, but perhaps the author is right in taking no chances. The other poems call for no special comment H. Bagedorn's "Song among Ruins" is finished and pleasing, W. H. Wright's "Ballad of Primeval Things," conventional. A. Davis's "Battle Hymn" suffers from too evident striving for vigorous phrases, which sometimes ends in grotesqueness...
...Murray was graduated from St. John's College, Oxford, receiving his M.A. degree from there in 1892. The University of Glasgow honored him with the degree of LL.D. in 1900. He is the author of a "History of Ancient Greek Literature" and a number of articles on subjects from Greek Literature in various journals. He is also the editor of several critical and explanatory editions of plays of Euripides, and of verse translations of other classical plays...
...theme than Mr. V. H. King has taken advantage of and is carelessly and inadequately written, the structure is well planned, the characterization suggestive, and the dialogue easy and lifelike. It is an amusing fact that, whereas Mrs. Jones is reconverted from Christian Science to Congregationalism, the author, for all his story tells, might belong to either sect. Mr. Joseph Husband's "The Summons" is a more conventional theme, better written. If not experienced, then it took an exceptional imagination to phrase to the senses so vividly a succession of impressions of a fire. One wonders, at first...