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...latest issue of the Advocate has some very good fiction. The two editorials at the beginning are very good; especially the one on printed notes, which expresses fairly accurately the general feeling now existing in regard to their use. "The White Corps Leader" is perhaps the best told and most interesting story in the issue. In this the writer has shown that he possesses a thorough knowledge of the way in which dueling is carried on in Germany and the story, moreover, is told in an easy and fluent style. Rather a clever plot is developed...
...well known as a correspondent to various papers and periodicals, and as a writer of books on the navy. He has recently returned from South Africa where he acted as correspondent for "McClure's Magazine" and "The Outlook." A volume entitled "The War in the Trecht," is his latest work. The lecture will probably be illustrated with the stereopticon...
...Museum of Fine Arts, has given 33 valuable books; J. B. Gerrish '71 has given 275 volumes; Small & Maynard, 100 volumes; Mr. H. O. Houghton, $100 worth of Houghton, Mifflin & Co.'s publications; Mr. Herbert Copeland & Day's publications. One hundred other persons have also made valuable gifts. The latest fund, $4,000, was subscribed by the friends of the late Robert F. Simes...
...James Russell Lowell: A Biography," by Horace E. Scudder, is the latest and most complete of the biographies of Mr. Lowell. It is written with a just appreciation of his life from the various points of view of author, editor, professor and diplomatic ambassador. Recognizing the excellence of Professor Norton's "Letters of James Russell Lowell," the author, as he says in his preface, has deemed it advisable "not so much to supplement the 'Letters' with other letters, as to complement those volumes with a more formal biography." Keeping this aim in view, the author has quoted from letters only...
...Stories of the Colleges, being Tales of Life at the Great American Universities Told by Noted Graduates," is the title of the latest collection of college fiction. Graduates of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Columbia, West Point, Annapolis, Cornell and Chicago, graduates, who have already made names for themselves in contemporary fiction, have written these stories which are meant to be more or less indicative of the life of the different colleges represented...