Word: sucess
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...like the killing in a Greek tragedy is done behind the scense; but that hardly concerns the critic, and the author has done cleverly what he set out to do. The writer of the account of school-boy incidents, "As Related by Mr. Reginald Richards," essays, not wholly without sucess, that spirit of virile and forceful juvenility which appeals to us all in "Tom Sawyer;" the fun, however, is meagre and the piece too young by several years; it belongs rather in the columns, let us say, of the Cambridge Latin School Review. Although one may admit that a tractate...