. Review of reviews and world's work. appeared quite recently. Harvard, Yale, Princeton,Cornell, , Smith, and doubtless others have eachhad their chronicler. Most of the literature thus evokedhas been in the shape of the short story; and while itseems particularly difficult for an author who has thecollege feeling and sympathy to get far enough awayfrom his subject to gain a proper perspective, there ismuch clever work in these volumes, and they give one vivid glimpses ofuniversity severalbooks of this sortjust issued Sfartford Stories(Doubleday,Page & Co.) isnotable as pre-s
. Review of reviews and world's work. appeared quite recently. Harvard, Yale, Princeton,Cornell, , Smith, and doubtless others have eachhad their chronicler. Most of the literature thus evokedhas been in the shape of the short story; and while itseems particularly difficult for an author who has thecollege feeling and sympathy to get far enough awayfrom his subject to gain a proper perspective, there ismuch clever work in these volumes, and they give one vivid glimpses ofuniversity severalbooks of this sortjust issued Sfartford Stories(Doubleday,Page & Co.) isnotable as pre-senting the firstexploitation inthis manner ofany Western col-lege. Its authorsare Charles (a nephewof Eugene Field)and W. H. Ir-win, and there ismuch unusuallocal color, sincethis SouthernCalifornia insti-Mi{. JEROME K. tutiou lias a vcrj distinctive mi-lieu of its own. Boys and Men (Scribners), by RichardHolbrook, is a novel of life at Yale, covering the fouryears thereof the principal characters and presenting. 76S THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl/IEW OF REI^IEIVS. a rather tangled love-story. The ten tales in JosephineDodge Daskams Smith College Stories (Scribuers) nat-urally present a good many features not discoverablein their masculine counterparts; but it must be con-fessed that when in the basket-ball game AlisonGreer, rusher and a perfect tiger, charges down thefreshmens center, and when the frenzied freshies rubdown the players with whisky while chanting trium-phantly : Heres to T/lfO(7ora our dandy snbstitiiot;Drink her down, drink her down, drink her down,down, down. —at this juncture it would be difficult to discriminatebetween Smith and Yale or Harvard. Jesse Jjynch Williams can always be depended on towritean interesting story ; and, as his Princeton Storiesshowed, lie is particularly good when dealing withNassau Hall. The Ad ventures of a Freshman tells ofthe breaking in of a Princeton greenhorn, fresh froma country academy of Illinois (Scri
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