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LITERARY DEPARTMENT.

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THE VASSAR MISCELLANY.-Published by the Students' Association
of Vassar College; conducted by an annually chosen board of seven
editors, which consists of four members of the Senior Class and three
members of the Junior Class. Each student is responsible for the
literary merit of her own department. No Editor is responsible for the
sentiment expressed in any contributed article. The entire Board of
Editors is responsible for typographical errors.

There will be frequent articles from the Faculty or Alumnæ. Special
attention is given to the collection of items of interest to the Alumnæ
and former students.

Contributions to its pages are earnestly solicited from students of all
departments. They are due the 1st of the month. If rejected, they
will be returned to their writers, whose names will not be known out-
side the Editorial Board.

The MISCELLANY is published monthly during the College year.

Terms: Two dollars per annum, payable in advance. Single copies,

twenty-five cents. Advertisements will be inserted at favorable rates.

All articles or items intended for publication should be addressed to

MISS E. K. ADAMS,

PUBLIC LIBRARY

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ABTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATION8. 1899.

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Verily, "of making many books there is no end!" and not merely books, but books that are clever, well written, and well worth reading. This is especially true, just now, in the various departments of fiction. Dozens of writers who would have been famous forty years ago, must content themselves, to-day, with a quiet, respectable reputation, such as belongs to the man who is known as one of the regular contributors to a great magazine, and who now and then collects his productions in a book and publishes it. He appeals to one class of mind or another, to some special section of the country, to this or that taste in literature, and has his little circle of readers and admirers. But he finds that to gain a wider success, to get his head above water in the swelling tide of literature, is an exceedingly difficult feat.

This is accomplished now and then by such men as F. Arstey, who some years ago, wrote "Vice Versa," "The Tinted Venus," and other astonishing tales. The same thing happened again when copies of "She," and " King Solomon's Mines," were sold by the millions; and not very long since Rudyard Kipling dashed to the head of

* The material for the biographical part of this sketch was taken from an article by Louise Chandler Moulton in Lippincott's Magazine.

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