Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first issue of the Advocate is a competent and well-balanced performance, maintaining a creditable level both of entrtainment and of literary merit, but nowhere rising conspicuously above that level. The verse so liberally sprinkled through the magazine seems to me on the whole better than the fiction, and the book-reviews and sketches more effective than the articles and editorials...
...When I first wrote to the Union announcing my subject," said Mr. Lincoln, after he had been introduced by H. H. Faxon '21, "I intended saying that I would speak on the New England character in American fiction. On thinking it over, however, I was horrified at the extent covered by that subject, and so I hastened to put character in quotation marks. This materially changed the nature of my talk, for as you know, much may be done by the change of even a letter. This was brought home to me by a heading in the paper...
Speaking last night in the Living Room of the Union on "The New England 'Character' in American Fiction," Joseph C. Lincoln declared that, despite many statements made twenty-five years ago to the contrary, New England was still an excellent field for writers. Mr. Lincoln also told many amusing stories illustrating different sides in the character of the Cape Codder...
...Harvard Union: Lecture "Modern American Fiction" by Mr. Joseph C. Lincoln...
Keen insight and an abundant humor have made Mr. Lincoln's characterizations of Cape Cod Sea Captains and fishermen, in his Cape Cod Stories, particularly delightful, and it is of these people that he will speak more particularly in his discussion of modern American fiction, Since Mr. Lincoln has devoted a great deal of time to the study of these "Cape Condition," as they have wittily been referred to, he is acquainted with them and their way of living as few have been, therefore he is particularly well qualified to portray their humorous side. He has also been for several...