LITERARY DEPARTMENT. THE VASSAR MISCELLANY.-Published by the Students' Association There will be frequent articles from the Faculty or Alumnæ. Special Contributions to its pages are earnestly solicited from students of all 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 PUBLIC LIBRARY 119078 ABTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATION8. 1899. 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. |