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...Well, now we're down to the nuts and raiains", President Lincoln used to remark, as he finished his examination each day of the recent telegrams from the Southern battle-front and turned to the old dispatches, thumbed over again and again. The cryptic statement came as the climax of one of those delightful fables with which Lincoln enlivened the White House during the dark days of the war, explaining it as being the exclamation of a little girl who had eaten an enormous dinner, starting with nuts and raisins, and who had suffered the inevitable consequences of her gourmandizing...
Where now was the adventurous Prince Yudenitch, the charmingly cryptic Prince Kolchak, the mystically vague Prince Denekine? Where was the Prince of Poland? Where the Prince of Ukraine? Where were the Princes of the Esths and the Letts, of whose existence she had never known until she had been warned that they were riding to rescue her? They were all gone, frightened away by the evil monster, Bolshevism...
Book reviews and editorials complete the issue. Mr. Dos Passos gives a review--or rather impression--of Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim," one of the most important books of the year. The editorial on the Dudley Gate is too cryptic for ready comprehension. Does it refer to the sculptured lines of verse on the two seats? If so, it is justified both in form and spirit...
...number begins with "A Student's Recollections of Thomas Wentworth Higginson," by Mr. E. Wentworth Huckel, more sympathetic and hero-workshiping than inspired. Next is a sonnet by Mr. E. E. Cummings, about as cryptic as undergraduate sonnets are apt to be, and that is saying a good deal. After this comes a fairly amusing and lively story, "Bluff," by "B." Mr. R. S. 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...
...graduate article, "A Man and His Watch," by Arthur Stanwood Pier '95, is half essay, half story, pleasantly written and entertaining. The review of Mr. E. A. Robinson's "Captain Craig" though somewhat cryptic in utterance and perhaps not free from what Professor James has lately called "oddity of emphasis," is nevertheless a hearty and deserved praise of a book of very unusual value and importance. Of the undergraduate articles, the essay on "Clever Modern Fiction" shows good sense of proportion and some felicities of phrasing; that on "Johnson and Addison" is clear and sound. The story "Don Decarnez...