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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Francaise, Officier de la Legion d'Honneur, on "La Guerre Europeenne Actuelle." 1. La Guerre Actuelle et ses Differences avec les Guerre Anterieures. 2. L'Instruction d'une Armee pour la Guerre Actuelle. 3. Les Tranchees et l'Existence qu'on y mene. 4. La Preparation dune Attaque. 5. Comment s'execute une Attaque. 6. Comment est remportee une Grande Victoire. 7. La Defense d'une Position. 8. Les Qualites de l'Officier et du Soldat. Monday evenings at eight o'clock...
Apart from the editorials, this Advocate is divided between four short stories, an article on "Tea Drinking," and thirteen pieces of verse. Of this the prose on the whole is less important than the verse. The light, little, rambling essay on "Tea Drinking," by Mr. Alfred Putnam, has good comment and observation, but it seems less spontaneous than other contributions of the same author to the Advocate. The four short stories are all very short, with the exception of "The Shadow of Death," by Mr. Emerson Low. This is a story that catches and holds the attention, a story...
...Joan the Woman," there is a great deal that could be said about it, but any comment, whether of praise or blame, can with difficulty be expressed moderately. We might begin by saying that we have but little sympathy with the fastidious critics who find Mme. Farrar's conception of Joan of Arc a little too robust. Their own preconceptions of the character are, it is to be feared, a little too intense. "That wonderful child," as Mark Twain calls her in one of his finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly...
Mere artifice will carry one farther in verse than in prose. Perhaps this is why one finds the verse in this number somewhat more interesting than the stories. Whether it indicates a change of editorial policy or not, the absence of vers libre is worthy of comment. Most of the verse is in stricter forms and Mr. Hillyer even turns back the clock of the years to write a very dainty and winsome triolet...
Professor Copeland will give his second reading of the year in the dining room of the Union tonight at 9 o'clock. He will read, with an occasional comment, from the Old Testament and the New, and from the Apocrypha in the King James version of the Bible. The doors will be closed punctually at five minutes past the hour...