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...bulk of the number is as usual made up of fiction. "The Big Violin" by L. Simonson does not realize the possibilities of a good idea. Mr. Simonson sought to show in a stolid Teuton character the triumph of idealism over a materialistic environment, in connection with the conjuring of a masculine spirit out of a bass viol. He finally puts into the mouth of his chief speaker an expression of confidence in this triumph which his readers will hardly share. The characters are flimsy, the narrative is not well articulated, and the style is crude. If one must quote...
...telling his story and his simple, if uncouth, language adds force to the moral. The point of the story, though not novel, is certainly unusual. It reminds one of Bret Harte, or to compare small things with great, of Goethe's "The God and the Rayadere." L. Simonson's "Death and the Young Man" is a fairly successful attempt at a modern reproduction of the "Dance of Death," a difficult task. There is an atmosphere of weirdness and mystery about the showman and his tent in the great forest; but the author fails to vitalize sufficiently the figure...
...leading article of the current Monthly is a serious and thoughtful essay on "Whistler and the Multitude" by L. Simonson. The author is mistaken, I think, in one of his main theses, that art has no message for the multitude; he is right if he limits himself to the Anglo-Saxon multitude, but wrong if he remembers the Italian; for example one of the most encouraging things in our American composite life is a Sunday afternoon visit to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Mr. Simonson is wrong, too, in choosing the slashing style, in throwing other critics...
...larger part of the number is composed of fiction. Mr. Simonson's "Unfinished Madonna" is a delicately told story, rich in sensuous suggestion; and has a symmetry of form and a subdued harmony of tone that give it artistic quality. The characters are on the whole so well imagined that one regrets the more keenly the lapse of imagination that compels him to conclude the story by a suicide. The same regret occurs to one in reading Mr. Carb's terrible but effective character study "Leri," though in this case the suicide is not only more clearly inevitable but better...
...menu design by L. Simonson '09 and the class song by J. C. Bills, Jr., '09, have been accepted...