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...know how large a part the study of parody plays in the Harvard purview of literature; therefore I cannot tell what is a fair standard by which to judge the Harvard Advocate's April 1st number with its "Mirrors of Grub Street", to which anonymous writers, presumably chiefly undergraduates, contribute a score or more of imitations of well-known writers. I assume it would be neither gracious nor fair, for have I any disposition, to apply rigid tests to an ensemble so good-especially when the whole business is a labor of love and enthusiasm, done...
...from which the book takes its name and twenty-five lyrics of amazing craftsmanship and power. It is called, unnecessarily. "Priapus and the Pool" Uncouth., essentially Roman divinity, Priapus seems of late to have gained many followers far afield both in literature and music. But those who grub in books for the unwholesome or the obscene (Vice Commissioners take note!) will be deeply disappointed by the sheer beauty of these poems. The title is inappropriate. The poems themselves are as lovely as any love-lyrics I know. Their cadences fall like sudden, cooling rain and bring "another April...
...Boston is a proof of the dire straights to which people have been forced by the present high cost of living. For although all of us remember our daily mess in the service with great relish no doubt, nevertheless we would hardly stand in line all day for Army "grub" unless compelled to do so by dire necessity...
...literary conscience is especially inflamed against "crass stupidity in journalistic criticism." E. Bernbaum and W. A. Green grow positively heated over the ineptitudes of Boston, and other, critics of Ibsen and Shaw, and crush with grimness the wretched Grub Street on their wheel. Nay, more: they--especially Mr. Green--illustrate what journalistic criticism should be.--easily colloquial, anecdotal, popular, yet sound. Of course, the critics could rejoin that such writing means time and work: does the public want it badly enough to pay for it? Mr. Bernbaum, by the way, is depressed over the American public, is past even regretting...
...play, entitled, "Helen and Paris, or, the Dade, the Dunce and the Daisy," is a burlesque on the Iliad, and was written by W. K. Post, '90. Tickets have already been put on sale at Thurston's, and may also be obtained in New York at the Harvard Grub, at the Berkeley Lyceum, at the Woman's Exchange, and at the Fifth Avenue hotel; the boxes holding eight seats, may be obtained on application to R. G. Fessenden, '90, 60 Mt. Auburn street...