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...Rescue" is a gloomy story of hereditary insanity. Anna Warden, a young girl of a family tainted with suicidal mania, is expectantly watched by an aunt scarcely sane herself. The aunt's morbid and excited precautions are rapidly sending Anna the way of her ancestors. She is rescued by a faithful old servant who tells her that she is an illegitimate child and "not a Warden" except in name. The story is a lie; but it saves the girl, who goes, with new hope, to work. The play is well written and was well acted throughout. Miss Ellis...
...this sporting philosophy by which the American undergraduate lives, and which he seems to bring with him form his home, may be a very good philosophy for an American. It is of the same stuff with our good-humored contempt for introspection, our dread of the 'morbid', our dislike of conflicting issues and insoluble problems. The sporting attitude is a grateful and easy one, Issues are decided cleanly. No irritating fringes are left over. The game is won or lost. Analysis and speculation seem superfluous. The point is that such a philosophy is as different as possible from that which...
...said of the other prose contributions. In "Some English Outskirts" the writer has caught the spirit of rural England; it is a pleasing ramble to which he invites us. Part II of. "The Sins of the Fathers" brings out the point of the story: the inheritance of morbid and maniacal impulses; the peculiar feature is that the girl's suicidal mania is developed by her lover's inherited morbid appetite for psychological analysis-an interesting point, skillfully worked up. Two anecdotes, concerning a dog and an anaesthetic; give comedy and tragedy, with freshness and local coloring. The poetry...
...Ezra Caine," a book by Joseph W. Sharts '97, will be published this month by Herbert S. Stone and Co., of Chicago. The story was first conceived, and in part written, while the author was a member of English 22. The morbid condition of mind of a man depressed by consciousness of a past crime was the theme of this original draft, and the analysis was remarkable, for undergraduate work, although limited in extent to a few chapters...
...American writers Hawthorne was the most imaginative and sensitive. His boyhood and his early manhood were marked by a strange and almost morbid hyper-sensitiveness of nature that made him shrink instinctively from contact with others. He lived in the realm of his own creative fancy, and of the actual world about him he had little knowledge and less experience. His life was reflected in his early writings, and they are unnatural and constrained...