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...Root Club will be represented by J. H. Merrick 2L. and D. H. Starks 2L., while the Thayer Club has chosen C. C. Cabot 2L. and Nathaniel Thayer 2L. to do its arguing at the bar. Professor J. H. Beale will sit in the Judge's chair, with Joseph Connelly and R. C. Curtis '16 as his Associate Justices...
Though French, wielded by such masters of the interposed Gallicism as W. J. Locke, Booth Tarkington, Leonard Merrick, is the most insidious invader of the English novel, the other tongues are not backward in their occasional donation of a cryptic phrase. Villains are at almost any moment likely to break out with a brisk donner-wetter. What would a volume by Fannie Hurst be thought of without an occasional lapse into some good expressive Yiddish? Haunch, Paunch and Jowl is plentifully spattered with the colorfully Hebraic...
...GOOD-Leonard Merrick-Button ($1.90). Leonard Merrick does only a few things and he always does them in the same way. That he usually manages to give them an original tang is high tribute to his unexcelled craftsmanship. In this book most of the old situations reassert themselves a little over-assiduously. There is the second-rate theatrical troupe an'd its provincial lodging houses. There is poverty-stricken Virtue roaming the London streets for chapters in search of shelter and employment. There is sentiment, barrels of it, verging narrowly on the sugary. But there is more than...
...most successful stories these British authors have given us are in humorous vein. "The Mayor's Dovecote", by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, is an amusing tale, a pleasant revival of human nature in fiction. "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty", by Stacy Aumonier, contains a situation upon which Leonard Merrick might have congratulated himself. This is another story that inevitably suggests a much greater writer; would that Mr. Merrick had put his finger...
...failed through the attempt to make the commonplace suggest the emotional. Mr. Boyd loses his laurels by pure timidity. No doubt one says less than he means, and it is an offense to open the heart; but Mr. Boyd plods with matter of fact foot along a path where Merrick would have sung with "voice memorial". Perhaps it is not timidity that led Mr. Boyd astray; he sinned by rushing in where genius might have trod...