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Morris Gray '77, prominent lawyer and president of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, divided with Miss Lucy Mallison of London, England, the honor of winning the first prize in the Bartlett city sonnet contest, according to an announcement made yesterday...
...Bookman: "Byrne's prose has the languorous beat of a Keats sonnet...
...bantering tone, something genuine, however unsound, in the philosophy. After all it is the function of the Advocate to express undergraduate ideas rather than to rival professional magazines. That is excuse enough for the very patronizing book review. It doesn't excuse, however, such unintelligible verse as the Sonnet. One always hesitates to confess missing the point of a poem obviously subtle for fear that like the folk in the fable one isn't worthy of his office if he fails to see the magic garment of the king; as for this sonnet I for one can make neither head...
Turning again to the undergraduate contributors, Mr. Abbott's sonnet deserves especial praise; but we deplore Mr. Marshall's idiosyncrasies in the modern manner, both of matter and arrangement, and we confess to a down-right bitterness in regard to Mr. Mangan's "Crest". Mr. LaFarge's second contribution must bring our review to a close. It is a story, excellently conceived and skillfully written, perhaps too skillfully, for at the end there is little but its conpetence and its manner to carry it on. There is a sort of frustrate maturity about the Advocate at times which prevents...
...master of versification, he took, as his right, a master's freedom. He was lavish of trisyllabic feet in iambic measures, giving anapaestic movement to line after line of a sonnet. His vocabulary was large and luxuriantly responsive, too ready to encourage love of words for the sound's sake. With closer attention to his art he has resolutely checked unthinking profusion: what he gives his reader is the quintessence of the poetry that is in him--his closely packed, severely chosen best; and in this best; and in this best are individuality, imagination, and beauty...