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and- a touch down in the second. Holler into hio stories notably in Tom-Sawyer,''
played the best game for Hnkcr and Maims which is so true to boy life that it is worthy
ahdWilliains for Donne. The fact that we of praise for that alone, apart from any 1UL
beat Donne 28-0 u wedk before shows pretty erary excellence it maypossess. Tom Sawyer
conclusively the relative merits of our team is just such a pug-nosed urchin as may
and Baker's. be found the world over, and the village- of
The first league game was played in Kan- St. Petersburg is the counterpart of vil-
8ii8 City last Saturday. Kansas beat Iowa lngs innumerable. We could not venture
35-24. This is a better showing than Iowa to say that it (alls to the lot of many boys to
had been expected to make against Kansas, cover themselves with glory by losing them-
r . , . ! 1 11 selves in a cave, unearthing a hidden treas-
Pnnceton beat Pennsylvania 4-0 in a hard- n,-lv"
fourht battle ure' or even b' helP,nS t0 convict a mur-
,v . derer, but Tom's hopes, aspirations and
Harvard beat Cornell 30-0. . . . . .. ., . . .1, ,.OM1u;,
0 ambitions cannot tail to stnko a responsive
On the 28th of October Minnesota beat chor(1 -n young hearts an(l an apprecia-
Michigan 34-20. tjve one jn 0er ones Many of his expe-
riences were the authov's own by confession,
titcracu note's. !!"d lh?., chan,c,cra of l!,c, slo'T wor? dr"wn
0 trom life, as most of his characters are.
They are no ideals. This give an air of
Lovers of "Innocents Abroad" will be realty to his productions, which in spite of
pleased to hear that Mark Twain has writ- the many extravagances they contain, con
ten a serial for the Century the first install- yjnees us that we are reading of creatures of
ment of which appears in the the December flcsb and blood.
issue. The scene of the story is a steamboat At times we may be tempted to doubt
town in Missouri, probably very like the one lne truth of his pictures, but it is so generally
in which the authors boyhood days were obvious when they are overdrawn that we
spent, and ground with which he is certainly are jn n0 imminent danger of being mis
familiar. Life in these drowsy old places icd, as jt is extremely unlikely that he should
possess many features decidedly unique. It have the monopoly of any single field. If
is seldom that they are entirely free from the hjs penchant for humorous or dramatic effect
legends and superstitions that cluster around leads him to overstep the bounds of proba
such secluded communities. The people bility, we can usually rely on some one else,
whose daily recreation is "going down to see lo sc us aright. That he excels in his line
the steamboat come in," have aflbrded him js universally admitted. He has a way of
an inexhaustible fund of inspiration. treating fact and fancy that is seldom suc-
The lowei Mississippi abounds in "types" cessfully imitated. He can ridicule a sub
perhaps more than any other part of our ject without giving ofiense, and there is no
country, and Mark Twain has not been slow malice in his satire. He presents all possible
in recognizing their literary value. Again subjects in ridiculous aspects for humor's
his own wide and varied experience has sake,' not from any cynical motive, for there
introduced him to all classes and conditions js no bitterness underlying his treatment of
in many parts of the world. Having served them. Occasional pathetic touches serve to
in various capacities from that of office boy offset this constant satirizing. The fate of
to pilot on a river steamer, he has had abund- the mournful little monarch in the "Prince
ant opportunity to gain that most important and the Pauper" is not one of unmitigated
of all things to the writer of fiction, a knowl- joy, and the responsibilities of his office
edge of men. Many personages familiar to weighed heavily on his young shoulders,
him in his younger days have been worked Mark Twain' has written-nothing more.pleas-
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