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There are five books of which King Alfred is certainly the author: "Pastoral Care," and "Dialogues," translated from Gregory's Latin, the "History of the World" and the "Consolation of Philosophy," adopted from Boethius, and the "History of the Church of England," translated from Baeda. It is the translations form Boethius which show best the literary genius of the King. Many parts depend in no way upon the original text, but are Alfred's own work. Comparing this translation of Boethius with that of Chaucer, some five centuries later, and of Queen Elizabeth, we find it far excels them both...
...Gaudeum certaminis"--the joy of the struggle--were the words with which one of the friends of Stevenson used to sum up the spirit of the author's career. Throughout his life, Stevenson had constantly to fight--against sickness and the very near approach of death, but he was always ardent, joyous and invincibly courageous. Stevenson's artistic and literary ideas may not have been original, and may even be, as Mr. Chapman believes, too fragile and ephemeral to endure; but Stevenson's character was unique, and the remembrance and the influence of it will be enduring. "Sick and well...
...Southern aristocracy, during the reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents a sympathetic picture of that period, when the old civilization was giving way before the drastic methods of reconstruction...
...special twenty-fifth anniversary issue of the Lampoon which appears today is made up for the most part of drawings, stories and poems selected from old numbers. These are well chosen, and, printed with the authors' names and the number of the volume in which they are found, they make an unusually entertaining number. Although some of the drawings are taken from very early volumes, they are not pointless, by any means, and some of them apply very well to the life of today. The "Manners and Customs of Ye Harvard Studente" by F. G. Attwood '79, make...
...author can play equally well upon his reader's feelings if he can discover a new corner of the earth or illumine any great human problem. In this way many readers take up Mrs. Wilkins for New England scenes, J. M. Barrie for Scotch peasant life or Stephen Crane for the field of battle. On the whole the short story offers greater opportunities for a young writer than the novel. In the short story one may be didactic and yet not wearisome, and then the short story can pose problems and leave them unanswered. Now the novelists George Sand Dickens...