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...Usurper of the Range," by W. Jones '00, is without doubt the best piece of fiction in the number. Its subject is fresh and unhackneyed, and treated with a firmness and sureness of touch which shows the writer's perfect knowledge of the western life and incidents he depicts...
Early in the introduction, Mr. Rideout says happily that "whether or not Gray was 'a poet fallen on an age of prose,' he was beyond doubt a great letter writer fallen on the great age of letter-writing." Indeed Gray has been called the greatest of English letter writers. This and the fact that hitherto his letters have been accessable only in Mr. Gosse's inaccurate edition of Gray's complete works would be excuse enough for any volume of selections. But Mr. Rideout has chosen so wisely, has used such good judgment in picking out those letters which...
...school of French symbolistic poets has had no one great writer, who can stand at its head as Victor Hugo stands at the head of the romantic movement. During the time of these French writers the curious idea of the color of vowels arose, an idea which was made ridiculous by Reghil, who carried of this time are three other men who deserve mention, Jean Moreas, a Greek by birth, and two Americans who settled in Paris, named Stuart Merril and Vielle-Griffin...
...profound and widely read scholar that he afterwards became; but he had the temperament of a scholar, and the will to succeed in whatever he undertook. He had, more-over, the training of a man of affaires. His practical experience as editor of a metropolitan journal and as writer of its leading articles on political and economic subjects, had given him a grasp of these subjects, and a hold upon the living world, which no amount of reading could have supplied. It had cultivated his powers of thinking and of presenting his thoughts in a clear, orderly, and convincing manner...
...These qualities distinguished Professor Dunbar's work as teacher and writer. Drawing his instruction from first-hand sources of knowledge, he set for his students an inspiring example of thoroughness. His remarkable talent for the clear exposition of difficult subjects was rendered more effective by the methodical planning and careful preparation of his lectures. In them he incorporated the best results of recent inquiry and he spared no labor to keep them fresh in thought and in language. His opinions on controverted questions, firmly held though they were, he never imposed upon others; but he gave his pupils abundant material...