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...series of books that has sold three million copies already - the continuous, timeless story of the adventures of a typically American family, which for sheer length makes James Joyce's Ulysses seem like a preface. We refer, of course, to the latest segment of the Rover saga - The Rover Boys at Big Bear Lake or The Camps of the Rival Cadets...
ANNETTE AND BENNETT-Gilbert Canaan.-Seltzer ($2.00). A novel complete in itself as far as the plot goes but also forming part of "the Lawrie Saga"- a literary sextet the composition of which has occupied Mr. Cannan's attention for the last ten years or more. The depressing environment of Thrigsby-a dingy manufacturing town-and a certain ingrown Puritanical stodginess of character combine to crush the Lawries and their connections under the weight of their own respectability. Some try to escape-James Lawrie via unintelligible humor and the pothouse-Annette, his daughter-in-law, by having quantities...
...sixth volume of "Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature: is "Angevin Britain and Scandinvia", by H. G. Leach '06, secretary of the American Scandinavian Foundation. This volume discusses the literature of these countries under the hoads of History, Romance, and Saga...
...longest and most notable prose piece in the July number of the Monthly is "Leaf, Somebody's Son" by A. Calvert Smith. The author makes ingenious use of the small boy's point of view to relate a fragment of the Saga of Eric the Red. The difficult style is well sustained, and the story is remarkable for happily chosen details. The small space devoted to the inner plot will disappoint readers who admire Kipling's "Puck of Puck Hill" series...
ARLINGTON. UNIVERSITY SECONDS.Spencer, Sinclair, l.w. r.w., Townsend, ColeMansell, Viano, l.c. r.c., Rumsey, W. Patterson, PeabodyPeabody, r.c. l.c., TrainerPercy, Donnelly, r.w. l.w., Taylor, Reycroft, DevereuxRobbins, Lindberg, c.p. c.p., Williams, HastingsRoss, Lindberg, p. p., Brown, Hastings, SturgisBerquist, Harrington, Barry, Edwards, g.g., Stanton, Saga...