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...best things in the number are the five literary essays which are quite up to the former standards; not so broadly human, kindly, but keener and more exacting, perhaps a little intolerant. The four men who discuss Dowson, Poetic Drama and The Poet have expressed, very professionally, attitudes rather individual. Harrison's "Dowson" takes a fling at the old heresy that the morals of a genius do not matter, even while he has a little sympathy for the genius...
...Dowson, "Poems...
...Wheelock's "The Street" is notable amongst the poems in the number. Though one feels an echo of the Dowson kind of poetry, the echo is passed on with a new voice, a voice not so sickly and more ingenuous. In Mr. W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez' "Clerk o' Cardiff" there's a whiff of good story, an insistent refrain, and a manner of words and rhythms reminiscent of Kipling through Alfred Noyes. "Persicos Odi Puer", a happy immigrant translation from Horace by Mr R. J. Walsh, might perhaps have taken even more advantage of its "freedom...
...April number of the Monthly, which appears today, contains the following articles: "Humanism and the Ph.D. Degree," by P. A. Hutchison '98; "The Tutors of Horace," by J. L. Price '07; "Song," by H. A. Bellows '06; "The Poems of Ernest Dowson," by H. E. Woodbridge 3G.; "The Vagabond," by R. E. Rogers '09; "Verse," by R. Altrocchi '08; "The Beginnings of the Picaresque Novel in England," by R. P. Utter '98; "Vanity," by C. T. Ryder '06; "Signor Bill," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "The Fear of Death," by G. Emerson '08; Editorials...