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...part from one or two inconsistencies both story and dialect of "Uncle Willis Skimpy and the Cotton Bale," by T. N. Buckingham are carefully and well worked out. To the Southern reader, however, the use of Satan in dialect so marked as Uncle Willis's seems an unpardonable solecism, and the reasons for the stealing of the mysterious cotton bale are left in doubt. Uncle Willis, too, lacks convincingness. IT seems as if the author had bad no definite character in mind in writing his story, but had rather thought out his plot and set it down in negro dialect...
...Morris and James Loeb. For the purchase of works printed in America in the Judaes-German dialect...
...character sketching. The author plainly knows what he wants to say, and says it cleverly. "Elizabeth and Priscilla," by W. N. Seaver '00, just fails of being very good indeed. It is carefully planned and well written. But it is not convincing. "Tom's Wife," is a New England dialect yarn of good local color. "In Search of the Conventional," by J. G. Cole sC., is a tale in which the writer attains that which his hero seeks. "Where Poetry Fails," is a very pleasant idyllic sketch, and "Bradford," by Richard Inglis '03, harks back to home-sick Freshman days...
Very different from "Counterfeiting," is J. A. Graydon's delightful Irish dialect story, "In the Study." Throughout this yarn there is a great deal of characterization, and in the homely, wholesome sayings of Terry, an Irish peasant, there is much "horse sense." The theme of the story is, of course, love; but there is nothing commonplace in the way in which this very conventional subject is treated. The phrasing used is slightly precocious, but this--if anything--adds to the charm of the story. In style, "In the Study" is the equal of any story which has appeared...
...most important contribution to the current number of the Advocate is an Irish dialect story, "A Village Paladin," by J. A. Graydon '01. After briefly picturing the town of Rosslea, on Fair Day, the writer describes the shop of Mickey Doonan, the village blacksmith, and then skilfully introduces upon the scene some of Mickey's "boon companions." In the dialogue which follows there is both vigor and movement, and wherever the writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very...