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...shorter poems Mr. McLane writes in a more subjective vein, yet all of them have an interest for the reader. This is chiefly because he touches other themes than personality, and always has something to say. This is true of Brooke's verses; but it is true of the work of few other younger writers. One definite feeling that might be considered almost a message, can be traced throughout the whole book; it is the sad acknowledgement of the power of winter, death and darkness, coupled with an absolute assurance in the eventual victory of spring and new love...
There is only one Japan and only one Julian Street to visit, so the Nippon impressions contained in this volume are not political, not "with a purpose", not too critical; yet in a popular rather than trivial vein...
...foremost naturalists of the English-speaking world, Mr. Beebe, whose latest book "Edge of the Jungle", is having a large sale has a delightful vein of playfulness which is shown in his recent review of "The Cruise of the Kawa", a screaming burlesque on South Sea expeditions such as he writes of seriously, and in his story of the time when, as an aviator, he bombed a farmhouse full of German soldiers though aiming at a troop train, and upon his return he did not trouble to correct the French soldiers who complimented him on his fine shot...
...preceded the prologue, was a gloriously romantic combination of contrasting motifs, which in itself told the story of the opera, more interesting than the piece itself. The second act, a scene in a monastery, was both musically and dramatically effective. The composition here was in Verdi's more religious vein, and this, through the medium of a well trained chorus was presented most satisfactorily...
...member of the newly materialized class of '25, I hope that I will not be thought presuming if I venture a few words, in a critical vein, unfortunately, on the editorial which appeared in the issue of October 4th entitled "A Dire Symptom...