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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hell fer Sartain," by John Fox, Jr., (Harper and Brothers), is a collection of short stories of the Kentucky mountains which have appeard from time to time in the magazines. Many of them are in dialect, but the intending reader need not be alarmed, for the dialect is not at all difficult to read and is extremely interesting owing to its unique character...
...returned to Kentucky, and after a few years settled in the mountains, where he has since lived. Thus he has discovered a new field in fiction and has made excellent use of it. The stories in dialect are mostly humorous. The humor is not insistent, and the reader is flattered by having much left to his intelligence. The same may be said of the narration in the other stories. These are told with a simplicity and directness suggestive of Kipling. This is more especially true of "Through the Gap." The last in the volume, "A Purple Rhododendron," is intensely dramatic...
...originating element in our nature, and comes to the conclusion that it is the subconscious drift of our nature, not "consciousness that, in us men, is the originator." The subject of the symposium, which should have been called "Harvard's attitude toward smaller colleges" must strike the average reader as a rather far fetched and simple question to write six pages on. A. D. Sheffield develops the only idea of any originality, and the attitude taken by the editorial might almost be called narrow-mindedly intolerant. The best undergraduate contribution is an unusually thorough criticism of Thomas Hardy...
...other hand, much in the book is cleverly done, although the author is at times unreal. The descriptions are especially good, leaving a crisp and vivid impression in the mind of the reader...
...prose pieces the two which impress the reader the most are "The Yielding of Luke Armstrong," by J. A. Macy, and a consideration of "The Epic Value of Scenes in Stevenson's Writings," by F. L. Waldo. The former is a well writen and cleverly told story. The writer deals with a comparatively hackneyed subject in an interesting way. Although in one or two places he is a trifle unreal, as a whole the story is successful and readable. The consideration of Stevenson's work deals with the striking characteristic of that author,- his vividness of style. As the author...