1903-04 Volume 28 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

i64 THE SCROLL.cago, Bro. Curtis has produced an absorbing tale, weavinga clever admixture of things bizarre and things familiar.The thread of interestconnecting the variousstories whichmake up the book revolvesaround thechance acquaintanceini. Chicago of J\Ir.Middleton, a brieflessand penniless youngbarrister, with thehereditary emir of theViabian tribe of Alat•*^*~.- Yam, who had come.»fW^f% '^ t° **= S'^^^i city insearch of adventure.The tales are striking\^_ ..^ i inventions in the linek'^^^K."! of story-telling, and> * > .. .«,* «-M.!.dK are written in a quick,f t ^^K^^^^^B'V ^'^S^S'"? style, ihebook has a fresh,•WARDON ALLAN CURTIS, original touch, andWisconsin,'ig.j^kes strong hold onthe interest. It seems to have caught on with the critics;the New York Times gave it a whole column, saying, 'It islikely to prove one of the most popular books of the season ;'the Examiner called it 'a literary masterpiece;' the Reader,'a triumph of the bizarre and incongruous,' 'distinctly anachievement;' the Chicago Tribune, 'whoever begins thisbook will send away his meals and sit up all night to finishit;' and others equally flattering.THE INFLUENCES OF THE COLLEGE FRATERNITY.On a day of January a group of young men at StanfordUniversity laid their coats upon the grass or on the broadveranda of their club-house, and began a game of catchwith a baseball. A carriage drove by, with one passenger,evidently a stranger, enjoying a view of the, universitygrounds, and believing all that the driver told him. Thevisitor was unmistakably an Englishman. He halted his