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...Time and the Hour," the new Boston weekly, shows that the miniature magaazine fad is still rampant. The little paper is a purely local affair with a considerable amount of purpose, if one may judge from the first number. Taverner, late of the Boston Post, is assisted by a Booktaster, a Story-teller, a Gossip, a Reformer, a Playgoer, and a Diletante. Beside these regular departments, Number One contains an article by Margaret Deland and poems by Louise Chandler Moulton and Marguerite Merington...
Some people consider it a fad, a mere passing amusement, and not worthy of serious thought, but in this they make a great error. The object of Civil Service Reform is two-fold; in the first place that the country should be served by competent men, men who are in principles and intelligence worthy to represent the United States; secondly, that we should get rid of this bartering of offices, which has corrupted our country so terribly and given a chance to pigs to push their snouts around the trough and get as much as they could...
...this time, when it seems to be the fad of every one who talks, writes, or plays football, to reiterate the statement that legislation must in some way demolish the wedge, it seems only fair that the other side of the question should be heard, and, particularly, that any legislation should be neither hasty nor ill-considered. I am one of those quite ready to admit that the further development of wedge and mass plays would be detrimental to the interests of both players and spectators. A suggestion has been made that the wedge be permitted only inside the twenty...
...McCulloch, Jr., gives his "Impressions of Mr. Kipling." What Mr. McCulloch has to say is interesting enough-the chief fault in his article being its subject. Mr. Kipling has proved a very successful season's fad, but his star is already on the wane and his enthusiasts already looking out for a new idol to adore in his stead, Mr. McCulloch's criticism is julicio is and reasonable. He a Limits his in toility to prophecy as to Mr. Kipling's future but at the same time is disposed to look too leniently on the superficiality, lack of polish...
...innings and then was put out. First he gave Jonson's Sordido, the farmer whose avarice culminates at the point where he upbraids the men who cut him down for not untying the new halter. Then followed the sketch of Sir Puntarvolo who united two humours. The first, his fad for reviving the elaborate manners of chivalry is destroyed by being caught in an absurd "make believe" situation. The second, his proclivity for dealing in "returns" and "marine insurances" ends equally disastrously...