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Henry Milner Rideout '99, whose book is reviewed by Mr. Castle below, has rapidly come into fame as a novel writer in the last three years. Before being graduated from Harvard College in 1899, he edited "Letters of Thomas Gray" in his Senior year, and also Tennyson's "Princess" in co-operation with Mr. C. T. Copeland '82. Mr. Rideout was instructor in English from 1899-1904. In 1906 his first novel, "Beached Keels," was published. Since then have followed "The Siamese Cat," and "Admiral's Light...
...Rideout's books have lately appeared in such quick succession that with each new one we are inclined to say. "This must be a pot-boiler," and then we take it up and to our surprise find again fresh, well-balanced work. "Admiral's Light" is no exception. It is a breath, all to short, of down-east air, tingling with the strong, salt flavor of sea-girt downs and long, pebbly beaches; a tantalizing glimpse of gray ocean and pine-clad islands. The story, as a mere story, amounts to little, but why should it? The book does...
...style is not good; one grows tired of "encient" and "curtain," and other un-necessarily technical phrases like "bridge of approach" and "battering (i.e. sloping) bases"; harsh collations of words are common, and even quite inadmissible expressions, like easily in "the prophecy was easily declared verified," occur. No such book should appear without a good map. Besides the little bibliography, a brief table of the chief events in Scottish history might be worth adding; and the long account of Edinburgh Castle would be very greatly illuminated by one of the numerous old plans of this grand but much altered fortress...
...This book is the third of a series, the first two which describe the castles of Touraine and of Navarre
Entries for the handicap games, to be held in the Stadium Saturday, April 11, may now be made in the blue book on the bulletin board in the Locker Building. Nobody is eligible to compete who has not taken a strength test since January 1 and received a card of permission from Dr.Sargent. All entries will close Wednesday...