Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likes poetry--these is poetry of sorts in this Advocate; there is also some of the other sort. If one's preference is biography--he finds in this number a passage from the life of a little-known New York patriot of pre-Revolutionary times. There is also fiction--one very good story, and two others which are by no means bad. Strangely, there is only one essay within the covers of this Advocate, yet it is a charming one. There are articles, of course; the perennial favorites, football and Harvard educational policy, are treated at some length of words...
...Publisher of True Stories, Physical Culture, Fiction Lovers, True Romances, True Detectives, Radio Stories, Muscle Builder, Dream World, Dance Lovers, Modern Marriage, Your Car, Movie Weekly and The New York Evening Graphic...
...Straton has long been prominent in the country as a leader of the Fundamentalist group in religious controversy. He is the author, among other works, of "The Virgin Birth--Fact or Fiction," "The Dance of Death--Should Christians Indulge?", "Our Relapse Into Paganism", and "The Fall of the Hall of The Age of Man" The last of these is described as "standing revelations concerning the musty old bones that have been juggled and manipulated to prove that man descended from the brutes...
Many other interesting features fill the 33 pages of The Writer. In a department called The Forum the value of newspaper work in writing fiction is discussed by a number of well-known authors. Mr. Kennedy states that in the January number of The Writer will be a survey of the literary movement in American colleges. Data is being gathered on the conditions of college magazines and literary societies all over the country. He also says that next month the magazine will include a story by John Galsworthy, to be criticized by Mr. Gallishaw. Poetry will be added...
Professor Copeland spoke on the history of the Advocate, and urged upon the candidates the preference of writing "gentleman's essays" to producing ordinary fiction. He expressed his pleasure with the first number of the new Advocate and read selections from several authors...