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...Library has recently received through Mr. L. Wiener the second largest collection of books in the Slovak language in the world. Slovak is a dialect of Bohemian spoken by nearly two million and a half of the inhabitants of Northern Hungary. During the nineteenth century it has developed a literature of its own. Mr. Wiener spent the summer in the Slovak country, and then succeeded in buying all the books of value in that literature...
Under the rather un suggestive title, "A Reconciliation," F. R. Dickinson has contributed a story of life in a Canadian lumber -camp. The setting of the story is well-chosen and the characters are fairly well delineated. The dialect, however, is crude, and the full dramatic possibilities of the final scene are not realized. "The Sea," by a. P. Wadsworth, is an imperfect sketch of a very common place type. In "Uncle Paul," William James, Jr., has strung three incidents, not closely related, into a connected story. "The Hum-Drum Company," by F. R. DuBois, is out of the ordinary...
...present writer is too unfamiliar with the dialect of the English countries to attempt to criticise that of "A Child of All Fools," by Rowland Thomas. The plot is slight, the suggestion vague, but the characters as individuals are well drawn and the dialogue is well worked...
...complaints. Of the stories, "Hawkins of Cold Cape," by Carrol More, is the most entertaining. It is funny from beginning to end, and although absurd on its face never seems absolutely improbable. "The Story of Nellie and Jack," by E. A. Wye '01, is well told, though the curious dialect is rather trying on the reader. Dialect stories have to be very good indeed to make up for the difficulty of struggling through the sentences. "In at the Death," by J. P. Sanborn, Jr., '00, seems hardly plausible in the telling, and not especially enter taining. "Told from a Diary...
Members of the Radcliffe Idler Club last night presented "Sunbonnets" to a very appreciative audience. The play, a farce comedy, by Miss Marian D. Campbell, death with the complications arising from two rival missionary societies of a village church. The characters were accurately drawn and the dialect was natural. The cast was well selected, Miss Campbell, as Mrs. Du Bois, a summer boarder, and Miss Katherine Searle, as Mrs. Butterfield, the hostess, being particularly good. The performance, however, suffered slightly from over acting, a fault common to amateur theatricals. Miss Mabel W. Daniels sang between the two acts...