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Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. A. A. Berle. Subject: The Pillar of Salt. Gen. 19:26. Sever...
...stories in this number have insignificant plots which skill in treatment cannot entirely replace. "Beatrice or Flora" is prettily told, though in one or two passages the English strikes the reader as clumsy or inelegant. It would have been improved by the omission of the roundabout introduction. "Du Guesclin's Mistake" is photographic in its accuracy of detall and stops abruptly as if incomplete. It is, however, pleasing in effect...
...knights of the Round Table may almost be shocked by the ruthless way in which their heroes have been descrated in Mark Twain's last production "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." There is a tone about the book which grates harshly upon the sensibilities of the reader-a tone which calls forth the feeling that the author would have succeeded far better had he displayed half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic is the most noteworthy of the good qualities of the book which is really a combination of satire...
...only are at states but two and also many foreign countries represented, but the residences of the members of the faculty are widely scattered. Then again not only the students but also the professors come from many different denominations. These, with other minor reasons which the reader will readily notice, gained for Yale many years ago the title of "National" University, which she still maintains...
Semitic Seminary. Reader, Mr. G. A. Barton; subject, Tiamat. Sever...