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1+Boys and Men
A STORY of LIFE at YALE
By RICHARD HOLBROOK (Yale ’93)
Second edition, 12mo, $1.25
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“The strength of ‘Boys and Men’ is largely in its thoughtful representation
of the development of boyhood into manhood. . . . Nobody will think the book
absolutely correct, for the subject is one on which no two men absolutely agree;
but nobody will think it very far wrong.
Moreover, nobody will regret reading
it, and nobody, for a long time at least, will do the thing better.’—Yale Alumni
Weekly.
“One finds in Mr. Holbrook’s story something
of that rich exuberance of college life which is the
envy of those who have never experienced it, and
which forever lingers in the memory of those who
The chief interest lies ina wholesome enthu-
siasm that pervades the story, and in the bits of
have.
clever dialogue that are truly typical.”
—Chicago Tribune.
“¢Boys and Men,’ is a remarkable book in many
In the first place, although a Yale book,
Secondly, it has a very
Thirdly, it is the peer of any college
. Inevitably, a college story
must rely for attractiveness upon the author’s skill
at picturing characters and weaving together some
respects.
it is not bound in blue.
clumsy title.
story ever written. . .
interesting scenes.
In this the author of ‘ Boys and Men’ has succeeded splendidly.
His pictures of college life are intensely vivid, and the romantic connection between
the two heroes and the exquisite heroine, Margaret Glenn, is very cleverly, even
dramatically, wrought.
It isa pleasure to repeat that ‘Boys and Men’ is a college
story that will be hard to surpass.’”’—Boston Journal.
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YALE LITERATURE.
[Continued from page 317.]
one Sabre Calhoun, when they lay out
nights on sand or in undergrowth and
watched the pole star hopefully.”
This is at the end of a good story told
in a very choice way by Arthur Colton
(Yale ’90), who is doing some good
literary work. His readers know his
style, which is very finished, simple and
suggestive; full of meaning and feel-
ing, without saying too much about it.
A little allegory called “The Elder’s
Seat,” published a year ago in the
Atlantic Monthly, is as good an expres-
sion of it as could be given He has
HON. CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, YALE ’56.
Who will succeed himself as a member
of the Yale Corporation.
written some verse on the same order.
The story we quoted from is called
“Bennie Ben Cree, being the Story of
his Adventure to Southward in the
Year ’*62.” It is published by the
Doubleday & McClure Company. Mr.
Colton, as one of his friends has put it,
for the first time in his stories, has put
action into his writings. He does not
let up for a line. In fact it is a good
adventure story, well told, not too bald.
As to the plot, it is well to read it.
Here is the last scene of one of
the acts (Dan Morgan, being a hap-
py, fat man and formerly a friend of
who had had much
fun out of Bennie, and had often
said that Bennie would be the death of
him) :—‘“But the strangest sight to me
was the six drowned men, lying in the
wash, and among them, with his lips
pursed out, as if amused and smiling up
into the wild sky, that singular man,
Dan Morgan. For he looked as if he
liked it well enough, lying dead in the
wash of the sea, and thought it odd at
any rate, that Bennie Cree should have
been the death of him.”
Bennie Ben Cree is frankly Steven-
sonian, but Stevensonian with a dif-
ference. That “Wizard of the North”
and of the Pacific Islands whom we are
fond of charging with the burden of
the modern romantic school in fiction,
might -well demur. He might well
appeal from the awkward prosing of the
historical novel now in vogue, from the
skin-deep medizvalism of Hope, Wey-:
man and that ilk, to the jaunty and
vigorous narrative, the thrust and parry,
the thrill and recoil of a story like
Bennie Ben Cree It is not too much
to say that this little book might re-
mind him of the very way he clutches.
you by the throat, to use his own phrase,
in “Kidnapped,’ “The Master of Bal-
lantine,’ “A Pavilion on the Links” or
“St. Ives.” ,
We quote again: “There is an
odd thing about that flag when you meet
it on the high seas and the wind is
blowing hard, namely, that of all flags
I know, it is the most lively, when the
wind blows, the most eager and keen,
with the stripes flowing and darting like
snakes, and the stars seeming to dance
with the joy of excitement, so that there
is none better to go into battle or
come down the street when the fifes are
piping ahead. But if you want some-
thing to signify peace and quiet, you
would be as well off without such brist-
ling stars and fewer stripes, for the stars
will leap and the stripes show their
energy whenever the wind blows.”
But Bennie Ben Cree, though strenu-
ous like Stevenson, is exquisite like
Hawthorne. The picture of the death
chamber, with the face upon the pillow
and the white window curtain blowing
in, never could have come from the
impassioned, restless spirit who gave us
those tales of hair-breadth ’scapes, of
danger and cool nerves; and if we are
to match it we must search Hawthorne
narrowly for those most delicate and
sequestered passages which an un-
observant eye skims over.
After all comparison there remains
the individual value, but faintly sug-
gested in these critical terms. It is a
fair promise of a new figure in our
literature, of a mind of unusual fibre,
which seems at last to be mastering its
modes of expression. ;
The “Yale Record.”
The Yale Record has- always been
considered good, even by the critics.
It is not well to compare it with simi-
lar ptblications in other Universities,
but Yale has never felt any occasion to
regret any such comparison. Of course,
it varies a great deal. But the general
tone is healthy. The record of the last
ten years, since the Record was reor-
ganized and materially advanced, has
shown some excellent names like Crosby,
Atterbury and Barber, while every
Board has had its good men. Nineteen
Hundred and One promises at least to
keep the standard well up. When in
good order, as it seems to be now, the
Record reflects a side of college life
which is delicious. The paper circulates
not a little among graduates and they
would doubtless take it more if it were
more often brought to their attention.
We are pleased to add, in behalf of this
cheerful contemporary, that a communi-
cation to the Business Manager, Yale
Record, New Haven, will receive the
best attention, and an enclosure of two
and forty hundredths dollars will bring
definite and pleasant results, every
other week the year round.
The Scientific Monthly.
The Scientific Monthly is seeking to
still further strengthen its hold upon its
constituency, both undergraduate and
graduate. It keeps within the plan of
its purpose, the printing of scientific ar-
ticles for its main contents, with com-
ment and chronicle of scientific matters
and scientific men for its departments.
It intends to hold up a high standard
of contributions and to make itself a
valuable aid to men in scientific work,
as well as a means of keeping men in
close connection with the School. To
this end it seeks the cooperation of an
increased number of graduates, whom it
feels it can interest and who, in turn,
can help to make the Monthly stronger.
The new Board has taken hold with the
new number. The contents of the latter
include an article on “Forests and For-
estry in the United States,” by Stuart
Hotchkiss; “Solar Eclipses,’ by R. M.
Chamberlin; “The Effects of Sugar on
Muscular Activity,” by W. T. Hart-
mann, and a paper on “Explosives,” by
G. H. Cressler.
To College Writers.
This good word is given to college
writers in the April Yale Lit.:
“If one’s creation be not a part of
oneself, it can have no artistic value
whatsoever. It is simply a meaningless
set of colors or chords or words. This
element of personal feeling is almost
everywhere lacking in our college art;
and it is this personal element which
our writers must cultivate. In their
stories, they must themselves experience
the feelings of their characters: they
must themselves be affected by the phase
of life they seek to represent. And in
the same way, in their essays they must
not merely give a correct account of
their subject’s life and a pains-taking
synposis of his work. For this is only
the inartistic veracity of the photo-
grapher or the encyclopedist. Each es-
say must reflect the purely personal and
deeper meaning which his subject has
for the writer. For it must be remem-
bered that no one, save the pedagogue,
reads a veritable work of literary art
for the facts it contains. That would
be lke going to an art gallery where
“The Angelus’ was exhibited for the
purpose of finding out what a French
peasant looked like. Nay, surely, there
can be none of us so blind as not to real-
ize that a book, just like a painting or a
piece of music, is naught but a key to
unloose the bonds with which the neces-
sary commonplaces of daily life have re-
pressed our inner and higher selves.”
