Two very sane and well handled editorials on timely subjects make an auspicious beginning for the last number of the Advocate.
Of the rest of the contents, the verse is better than the prose. "The Dream-Palace," by J. Hinckley '06, has a light and delicate fancy and no little beauty of expression: though here and there invention flags, and metaphor and word are drummed up at the exigencies of the rhyme. "Chanson," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07, has the charm of simplicity. The stories in the number are poor. "The Play" is an elaborately constructed rack whereon are hung a few, sometimes effective jokes. "The Adventure of the Young man and the Spasmodic Lady" and "The Curious History of a Selfish Man" are immature and crude: one is exaggerated attempt at farce, the other a sort of tragic sketch handled without skill. "The Three Worlds" ruins by a most clumsy climax a sketch of power.
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