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...Munn '12 Bashaw Joffer, M. C. Allen '11 A Spanish Captain, P. H. Keays '13 An English Merchant, A. J. Kelly '12 A French Merchant, R. D. Whittemore '13 An Italian Merchant, E. Hutchins '11 A Surgeon, C. M. Burr '14 A Preacher, H. G. Knight '13 First Drawer, R. C. Benchley '12 Second Drawer, A. J. Kelly '12 Servant, H. G. Knight '13 Chorus, G. S. Deming 1G.S. Bess Bridges, T. M. Spelman '13 A Kitchenmaid, C. M. Burr...
...Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1883. He studied law there for one year after graduation, but never practiced. In 1884 he accepted the position of associate editor of "Life," which he held for four years, only leaving to assume the position of editor-in-chief of "The Drawer." In the capacity of editor he has also been connected with "Harper's Magazine," "Literature," "Harper's Weekly," "The Metropolitan Magazine," and "Puck...
...Bangs was graduated from Columbia in 1883, and studied law there for a year, but never practiced. Instead he accepted the position of associate editor of "Life," which he held for four years, only leaving to become editor-in-chief of "The Drawer." In the capacity of editor he has also been connected with "Harper's Magazine," "Literature," "Harper's Weekly," "The Metropolitan Magazine," and "Puck." Since 1905 he has devoted his entire time to writing...
...Davis 1L., in his self-sufficiency and in his arrogance of difference from ordinary human beings, is only less deformed than the unfortunate youth in "The Reckoning," by C. W. Wickersham 1L., who, having made an ass of himself generally, took "a queer shaped object" from his table drawer and "looked steadily down into the black muzzle" as the memorial clock "counted slowly, Ding, Dong--one, two, three, four, five." Why five rather than six, one wonders...
...fiction, with the possible exception of "The Duke's Daughter," which succeeds by not aspiring too high, is hard to read and decidedly unsatisfying. Two stories involving college men as characters are tiresome and force the suggestion that in the search for "filler" the editor's drawer is being taxed too heavily. It seems a pity that a story so well written as "From the Best of Friends," should be spoiled by lack of clearness; less length and an explanation of some strange conversations and unaccountable actions would save it from being classed with the other stories of the issue...