Word: markheim
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prose, one severe study, "A Legacy," by Dudley Poore, will realize its intensely disagreeable types and atmospheres. It has literary value. It recalls, however somewhat heavily, the psychological analysis of "Markheim." In romantic view, C. G. Paulding '18 perhaps best appeals to a normal college public with delicate reminiscence of a childhood love-dream. The author unfortunately at first sets an apparently older tone. There is entertainment also in Percival Reniers '16's article, "Speaking of Trifles," where his potpourri of forced daily themes resembles a theme corrector's nightmare. Of the prose pastels, "Charity" too obviously allies itself...
Among the stories R. S. Mitchell's "The China Billiken" too obviously patterns after Stevenson's "Markheim," lacking, however, the rationale which makes that a case suggestive of a universal problem. The character study "Truth is Stranger" involves definite types and fairly accurate dialect in a story which, true or not, might well have been sacrificed to one more plausible. Nature perhaps, but not art, "looks after her freaks." One doubts, too, whether "Kernham! Wow!" will strike many as congruous with a Maine handy man. A really charming narrative, allegedly autobiographical, in the manner of Rhibany, is Ben Lion Trynin...