Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college students will be Edmund Gosse's critical essay on Rudyard Kipling, which is in the nature of a review of his literary work in prose and verse. Mr. Gosse has done his task in a careful, judicial spirit, and the result is an admirable estimate of an author with whom almost every one has become familiar in the past two years. A portrait of Mr. Kipling is the frontispiece of the number...
...Iron Fountain" is a well told story, a simple legend of Antwerp which has woven itself about a small iron fountain which the present visitor may see. "In the Moonlight," by the same author, is a graceful account of an Indian legend...
There are but three stories in the number, and by far the best is Mr. Wilcox's "Another Man's Mother." The author has chosen for his theme the description of two types of character which we know to exist at Harvard and with which we feel a sympathy-the easy-going idler with a kind heart and good instincts, and the hard-working grind with high aims and ambitions. The "grind's" mother forms the medium through which good is accomplished for both, and the slight dash of pathos at the end only strengthens a story which is easily...
...Popular Author of Today," the writer brings up again the well known fact that the standard of literature today is not high, that the publications of such books as "Mr. Barnes of New York" and "She" are more eagerly awaited than novels of a higher order. Yet with all this mess of literary work, true literary merit, he thinks, is not hidden...
...collection of college songs has just been compiled and issued by Lockwood Honore '88, now of the Law School. Mr. Honore, who was president of the Lampoon in '88, was the author of several of the songs in the old collection which all the colleges have largely used. The new collection will contain the best of the old songs and will have all the newest and most original songs which have lately come...