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...feature of each number would be an article from the pen of some prominent alumnus, and common report assigned to Mr. Wendell the honor of contributing the first of this series. Such proves to be the case. The Monthly opens with a sketch by the author of the Duchess Emilia, entitled "Draper." We must confess to a little disappointment in reading it, and dared we say it, we would remark that this article is not the feature of the magazine. C. O. Hurd, '86, has a critical article on Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," in which...
...current Atlantic contains much of interest to Harvard men. In it are a poem, "Dawn and Dusk," and a review of the Duchess Emilia...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON.-It was with the utmost surprise that I read, in our college papers, the reviews of Mr. Wendell's romance, "The Duchess Emilia;" nor was that surprise lessened by a second careful reading of the book itself. Such blind and undiscriminating praise as was lavished upon it, can be but harmful to any but the strongest work. Mr. Wendell's romance has been called the "most powerful and original that has been produced in America since Hawthorne;" "as a piece of literary workmanship, almost perfect." The reviewers have suffered only from dearth of words in which...
...CRIMSON has a review of the novel, "The Duchess Emilia," written by a Harvard tutor, Mr. Barret Wendell." - Yale News...
...Duchess Emilia," Mr. Wendell has given us a book which is strangely at odds with the tendency of novel writing at the present time. Don Quixote, armed for the fray, would present no stranger figure in our streets than does this romance among the novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means...