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...timeliness and merit of its articles and editorial, one of the best numbers that has appeared this year. In the well-proportioned breadth of its contents, also, it is calculated to please undergraduate readers. Beginning with a careful article on "The Gay Lord Quex"--which has recently been so prominent about here--it proceeds with a lively newspaper story, a capital appreciation of Guy de Maupassant, and one of the most amusing and well-told hunting stories that has recently appeared in undergraduate fiction. These contributed articles, together with the pertinent editorial on the wearing of caps and gowns, realize...
...plays lately presented in this country and as a study of laughter it is said to be the most perfect, not that kind of laughter that succumbs to buffoonery, but that which yields to pure, jovial fun evolved by legitimate methods from the supremely humorous complications originating from a well-told, consistent story...
...Brilliant Failure" is, on the whole, the best of the larger articles of the number. It is a well-told story. It is the parable of the master, the servants, and their talents modernized...
...third number of the Advocate appeard last Saturday. It is a good deal above the usual standard, especially as regards the stories. The editorials are clear and to the point, and discuss subjects of great interest to the student-body; the stories are interesting and well-told, and the poetry is better than what usually appears in the Advocate...
...strong writer. Although few readers will remember his first poem "Sun Hvmn," published in an early number of the "Monthly" to those who read it, his work was stamped with artistic legality. Here, in a tale of "Two Trips to Lake George" we have a cleanly cut, well-told story, which is so true to life and so dramatically rehearsed, that the hearts of not a few who read it will beat a little quicker in sympathy...