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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...Watson's "Desire of the Moon" is the one dramatic love story in the number. It is at times wittily facetious, at others conventionally sad, on the whole decidedly interesting. It might be called a black story told in pink. In "The Interrupted Romance," J. R. Dos Passos has a plot too frail to be called a plot at all, and a style too soft and adjectival. Descriptive details are good, however, and presented in a cheerful tone. In a brief editorial the editor-in-chief makes a graciously apologetic bow before retiring. We certainly feel like thanking...
...meeting of the Monthly board the following officers' were elected for next year: Editor-in-chief, Robert Stewart Mitchell '15, of Cincinnati, O.; secretary, John Roderigo Dos Passos, Jr., '16, of Washington, D. C.; treasurer, Charles Adelbert Trafford, Jr., '16, of Worcester; circulation manager, Waldo Hall Shattuck '16, of Woburn...
...Peddler's Pack" is vivid, imaginative, individual, quaint--much the best thing in the number, both in conception and in execution. "An Aesthete's Nightmare" proves how rare the extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...
...Monthly announces the election of the following as literary editors: Robert Stewart Mitchell '15, of Cincinnati, O.; John Roderigo Dos Passos, Jr., '16, of Washington, D. C.; Robert Silliman Hillyer '17, of East Orange, N. J.; and James Sibley Watson, Jr., '17, of Rochester...