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...dialect, there are two and a half pages of it, verse at that, entitled "Old Nell," and signed Simon Smaull; but it is good dialect, and good, easy-rhyming verse and so makes about the best feature of the paper. The quaint humor which runs through the lines never seems to have been consciously sought after, and so becomes the more effective. Of the other verses, "A Song," by R. P. arrests one's attention with the swing of its lines. The thought, simply enough expressed, is more serious than most Advocate verse, but luckily was not entombed...
...Edward Townsend, author of "Chimmie Fadden," "A Daughter of the Tenements," "The Sergeant," etc., will read a number of selections from his own works. Mr. Townsend is a prominent journalist, author and playwright of New York City, and is especially well known for his studies of Bowery life and dialect. He will read the following selections...
...will hold its twentieth annual meeting at Baltimore on December 29, 30, and 31. Of the Faculty, Professor Grandgent, president of the Association. Professors Sheldon, Kittredge, Ford, and von Jagemann will be present, and Professor Sheldon and C. F. Brown 3G., will read papers. Also at Baltimore, the American Dialect Society will hold a business meeting on December 30. All the above members of the Faculty are members of the Society, and will be present...
...verse, "The Lost Glade," by R. W. R., is melodious and delicate in phrasing. "Josua's Philosophy," a New England dialect-verse is rather too rough even for dialect. "The Concord Turnpike," Allan Tierney, has at least the merit of not going far afield for its subject...
...quaint and picturesque in style. "None but the Brave," is a story of some power, but the atmosphere is not pleasant. A longer story, "When the Tide Turned," by L. B. Cummings '03, is amusingly told. "A Stockholder in the L and N," is an attempt at a dialect sketch, but it is quite without coherence, and the dialect itself does not seem well sustained. Among the contributions in verse "Among the Cedars," by R. P., deserves favorable mention. "The Ballad of the Trenton," by L. W., is a spirited tribute to the officers and men who "met their death...