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...seems as if the labor of editing this exceptionally large number had exhausted the Monthly board, and this contribution of A. W. W.'s had slipped in as they slept. No other excuse is possible. For there is here an abundance of matter--a clever character sketch by C. M. Rogers that shows he could write a story if he only had a plot; a reminiscence of boyhood written by the editor-in-chief with vivacity and charm; a story of Gilbert V. Seldes which teases the reader unnecessarily and leaves one uncertain as to whether the author is very...
Frederick A. Wilmot '10 has offered a prize of $100 for the best comedy or sketch, the performance of which will not take more than half an hour, written and submitted to him before May 1 by a Harvard undergraduate...
...sketch entitled "Hour Exams", H. C. Greene tells the story of two roommates' rivalry with gentle humor--almost too gentle at times. "Trusts--A Point of View" is a comic bit of narrative by H. S. Ross, whose feeling for detail is almost Wordsworthian. Jabez Bronson is undoubtedly the best thing in the number. "Applied Economics" is another story in which a discourse on trusts sends its auditor to sleep. It is rather a descriptive sketch than a narrative; and it is not without its good points. An unsigned allegory, called Viae Vitae", might be called a poem...
...Rowlandson. The Rowlandson water color drawings, about 150 in number, constitute perhaps the finest series of nineteenth century humorous drawings in any private library. Of drawings by the two Cruikshanks there are some 250, a considerable portion of these being dramatic portraits. The most interesting Cruikshank item is a sketch for "Oliver Twist," the drawing on which Cruikshank based the claim that it was he who had given Dickens the suggestions which he had elaborated in his novel...
...word is due the capital sketch of the personality of Robert-Fleury, by R. D. Skinner, and the good sense of the unusually well-informed editorials. These close with a fit expression of the unspeakable loss the Monthly and all of us have suffered in the death of Paul Mariett. "How well could we have spared for thee...