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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Damon's essay on Strindberg, Schonberg, and Sibelius is praisworthy as an attempt to relate the arts, and also to help the reader to appreciate two ultra-modern composers, both of whom deserve enthusiasm. But this method of treatment, although conventional, is so frankly subjective that it seems ultra fantastic and amateurish. It is nevertheless interesting to those who received impressions of the music totally different from those expressed by Mr. Damon here. It is stimulating in that it is entirely subjective; but one must always remember that it is Mr. Damon who is speaking and not Schonberg, Strindberg...
...students, whether members of the Union or not, seem to appreciate the value of the Union Library, at least one department of the Union which is beyond reproach. Competent judges have pronounced it the best selected collection of books for the young reader of taste to be found in the country...
...library. There is also a very interesting and growing collection of books by Harvard men; and there are more books which are prescribed in courses than is generally realized. The volumes are selected with a view to the needs not of the research worker, but of the general reader of taste...
...Much of the writing is mediocre or positively bad. To the latter class belongs the prosesketch, "A Nightmare Whisper of the War." The author has contracted from Stevenson an aggravated form of the adjectival disease, and the ineffective anti-climax with which the piece concludes does not compensate the reader for the pathological exhibition to which he has been subjected in the foregoing tedious paragraphs. Though free from this contagion, the "storiette" called "A Gamble in Orange Blossoms" is badly constructed, failing in a convincing delineation of the leading figure and obscurely cramming the subsequent vicissitudes of the hero...
...current number of the Advocate is entertaining reading. Mr. Meeker's briskly told story, "On 'The Street of the Blazing Lights'", presents a mysterious Kentucky major, who is wiser than the world knows,--wiser, indeed, than the reader suspects, till the amusing "denouement," on the famous street, makes one wish that the suspense had lasted longer. More ambitious is Mr. Murdock's "A Change of Heart," which tells how a smug "scientific philanthropist," at last convinced by sad experience of his own inability to help his fellowmen by mere doles of money, is converted, not to a more humane sort...