Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hundreds of thousands of books will be necessary. The American Library Association is buying by the hundreds of thousands text-books and other serious books, for which there is enormous demand, but it is looking to the public to supply by gift the millions of volumes of lighter literature--fiction, poetry, travel, etc.--which our men must have...
...fiction, the American output fell from 932 in 1916 to 922 for last year, and native novelists offered 632 new titles in the later twelvemonth as against 703 in the earlier...
...Briggs, assistant librarian of the Widener Library and now in France, is, as representative of the American Library Association, in charge of the problem of distributing books to the military bases of the Expeditionary Forces. Twenty thousand books of fiction and general interest have recently been purchased in England by the American Y. M. C. A., and are now being sent to the soldiers at the military camps...
...been teaching here at Harvard. Not only has it an unusual number of technical errors and of lapses in artistic taste, but its substance is thin. Of the 15 pieces in this number--an editorial article, a literary criticism, a narrative of the French front, five pieces of prose fiction and seven "poems"--only one poem, "Ode to the East Wind," by Mr. C. La Farge, shows at once sincerity and artistic feeling; and even this is marred by several bad lines. Perhaps there is another exception, but I am not going to name it for fear of revealing...
...current Advocate is rich in fiction but relatively poor in verse and contains but two articles. The latter are in some respects the most interesting contributions to the number. They echo many a dispute about verslibre. Mr. LaFarge attacks, Mr. Jayne defends, the new form. Mr. Jayne's essay is very thoughtful but we can imagine becoming quite as absorbed in "Paradise Lost" as in "Christable." Mr. LaFarge is very worth reading on the other side, but has, at times, the rather irritating superiority of the classicist. The unsigned opening contribution to the number gives us three opinions...