Word: benning
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...true or not, might well have been sacrificed to one more plausible. Nature perhaps, but not art, "looks after her freaks." One doubts, too, whether "Kernham! Wow!" will strike many as congruous with a Maine handy man. A really charming narrative, allegedly autobiographical, in the manner of Rhibany, is Ben Lion Trynin's "Rosalie." The truth here to child life, the healthy human interest--even with comedy overdone--are indeed preferable to the usual run of undergraduate smartness and veneer. At the close--beautiful as one finds little Rosalie's roguish kiss--it seems better that the boy should have...
...Mitchell's poem, which follows, "From the Arabian Nights," is the best verse in the number, a pleasing experiment with the difficult Spenserian stanza, though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest piece of fiction in this Monthly. It has the makings of a good story, but it is rather rough in workmanship and not always of crystal clearness. The bit of verse following, "From a Warm Room," one is uncertain whether to take seriously or humorously. After this...
...call has ben sent out for more men in winter track. Now is the time when next season's victory or defeat will be decided. Remember this, when deciding whether to put so small a share of time on so worthy a cause...
Aristophanes and Ben Jonson...
...Watson's study of Bandelaire under the title "The Greatest Decadent," together with the story "Poet of the Ghetto" by a Ben Sion Trynin--an obvious and awful pseudonym--remain the only things really worth while in the number. The first is, if not profound, at least refreshingly sane and balanced in these days when to be young is necessarily to be decadent--or one would imagine so from recent Monthlies. The second, apart from a shabby and sentimental plot, possesses, in dialogue and description, a sense of actuality of life on the East Side of New York that...