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...lecturer next turned his attention to the prose writers, beginning with Gogol, the founder of the Russian naturalistic school. After an interesting and sarcastic sketch of the aristocratic tendencies of the time, the speaker gave a pathetic picture of Gogol's character, illustrating his literary physiognomy by a fine fragment from his "Dead Souls." The new elements brought into literature by Gogol can be expressed in one word: he was the first who made people feel ashamed of life. With Gogol, literature in Russia ceased to be a monopoly of the drawing room, and becomes the property of the nation...
...tale would seem to justify, but the remaining articles of the number are very satisfactory. Two hitherto unknown names appear as the authors of well written stories,-"A Summer Incident," by R. L. Raymond, and "The Exacting Story," by J. W. R., both comparing not unfavorably with the "Fragment of a Modern Tale," by J. Mack, Jr. "The Last Theme," by F. Johnston, is exaggerated, but its cleverness saves this from being objectionable...
...Antiquary. A Fragment," by George Griswold, 2d, is the longest poem in the number, and is decidedly telling. The blank verse is musical, and the succession of metaphors is very well sustained, - a difficult feat...
...most interesting things in the number is a fragment entitled "The Athletic Question Twenty five Years Ago," in which is printed a characteristic letter, or rather note, by James Russell Lowell on a base ball topic...
...last, but not least, a "Person," and in general show that Mr. Stockton is in the highest of spirits. Miss Murfree's serial "Felicia" ends the present number and ends tragically. Mr. Francis P. Church contributes an interesting paper about Richard Grant White, and in a bright autobiographic fragment, entitled "My Schooling," we are told of James Freeman Clarke's early educational training. "The State University in America," by George E. Howard, advocates the establishment of universities in each State, which shall be universities in something more than name, and the relegation of the many colleges of insufficient means...