Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be a dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston for the members of the National Institute. On the following day the annual award of the Grand Prix of the Institute will take place. It will be presented this year to the American author who has done most for fiction in the United States...
...authors are to blame for such mistakes as "Charles Dicken's reputation," "a vastly higher strata," the wrong use of "formula" on page 26, and the sudden change of a character's name from Josh to Amos on page 29. Even if the material handed in afforded no fiction with the snap we are accustomed to expect in Advocate stories, care should be taken to avoid such examples of slovenliness...
This issue of the Advocate contains, on the whole oar-marks of talent. The poetic end of the magazine bears itself very creditably, at least in respect to quantity, but where--oh, where are the fiction writers and the story-tellers...
...they contain much matter of only historical or specialized interest. The Union Library, however, offers every possible convenience and comfort. Its shelves, which are freely accessible, contain a generous collection of carefully chosen books. There are ample reference works, a large number of the best books of English fiction, essays, and poetry, and a considerable representation of German, French, Italian, and classical literatures. Art, music, the social sciences are also well represented; and not the least attractive are the books of biography and history, both ancient and modern, which are to be found in the north room of the library...
...Unrealists: A Contrast," by J. S. Watson, Jr., is a learned dissertation on various forms of fiction writing including aliegorism, satirism and unrealism with special reference to the writings of the two English unrealists, Wells and Chesterton...