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President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard University is said to have said of Princeton's song, "Old Nassau": "The music is meretricious and the words are tawdry, but the fit of the thing is excellent"; and so I would say of TIME: It is wretchedly written and its music, theatre and book reviews are ridiculous, but the "fit" of the thing is super-excellent. I will be a life-subscriber...
...exorcised her in the oratory of Nôtre Dame des Pleurs, and wish to add that she was completely dressed at the time, as stories told and written about me afterward were that I had obliged her to undress before exorcising...
Thus the consociation of Mr. Depew and the class of '89 might have seemed simply a flocking of like-feathered birds but for a letter written last week by Mr. Depew to his new brethren on the occasion of their annual dinner in Manhattan. This letter gave the impression that '89 had had a secondary motive, akin to the kindly one that actuates hospitable neighbors who invite a lonely widower to share their Thanksgiving turkey...
...usual, large, and in it there are several of worth. "The Professor's House" by Willa Cather is one of the most excellent, and rather curiously, has been popular. Steven's 'Paul Bunyan" records the yarns of the great legendary character of the American lumber-camps. Theodore Dreiser has written his first novel in several years, "An American Tragedy," in two volumes. J. R. Dos Passos in "Manhattan Transfer," writing in a kaleidoscopic fashion that savours of James Joyce describes the life of New York--or a part of it. Christopher Morley's "Thunder on the Left" is well known...
...Keats" by Amy Lowell is a monumental work which has created much discussion, and attracted high praise and severe condemnation. Werner's "Brigham Young" treats in a light but serious manner the extraordinary story of Mormonism and one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. John Marquand has written an entertaining but slightly padded account of "Lord Timothy Dexter," the freak of Newburyport, and Isaac Goldberg an interesting and elaborate life of "The Man Mencken." Earl Grey's "Memoirs" relate, among other things, what he is willing to tell of the British foreign relations at the outbreak...