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Very different is Richard Edwards's storiette, entitled "Beans." In it there is dash and movement, but no plot, and only half-sketched people. "Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men," is rather amusing, but decidedly thin. "Mademoiselle Lesperance," by Witter Bynner '02, and "A Camp Fire Yarn," are short sketches. A poem, entitled "Ambition." by A. C. White '02, verses on "Seadown" and "Cras Ingens Iterabimus Aequor," printed anonymously, and two book reviews complete the number...
...poetry contained in the number, "The Gargagle," by Edward Richards '03, and "Bacchanalian," by H. W. Bynner '01, are both vigorous and rhythmical. The editorials are adequate...
...suggestive in parts of Thomas Hardy. Its rustic coloring, its imaginative interpretation of external nature is quite masterful; only when the story analyses powerful human emotion and its results, is unconvincingness approached. Then it tends either to exaggeration or melodrama. If R. P. Bellow's "The Hoaxing of Truesdale Bynner" is more facile and interesting, as literature it promises less for the writer's future. But both stories have an atmosphere of serious literary intention that the Advocate would do well to cultivate more...
...feed them on chewing tobacco. Mr. John Fiske has an article in this number on Edward Augustus Freeman giving a sketch of his life and a brief study of his character. The most amusing article of the number is the "Diary of a Nervou Invalid" by E L. Bynner. Other noteworthy articles in this number are "George William Curtis and Civil Service Reform" by Sherman S. Rogers, and "Penelope's English Experiences" by Kate Douglas Wiggin. The only poetry of the number "To a Wild Rose Found in October" is a pretty little song with just a touch...
...January Atlantic the serials by Henry James and Edwin Bynner are continued. Gaillard Hunt, in an article on the United States pension office discusses the defects in the present system of granting pensions and suggests practical measures of reform. Agnes Repplier contributes an interesting article on "English Love Songs," and illustrates it by a number of pertinent quotations...