THE STORY OF DARTMOUTH

This is an attractive octavo volume of sixteen chapters and 285 pages, well printed on heavy paper and bound in green cloth, with a cut of Dartmouth Hall in white on the front cover.

its pleasing appearance as a specimen of the printer's art does not belie its contents. The story of the College with its early romance, its home in the wilderness, its long struggle with poverty, intensified by its contest with the State, and its later development lends itself easily to the pen of a ready writer, and Mr. Quint has well improved his opportunity.

As its title indicates, it is a story and not a history which he has written. It is based on facts, not built on fancy or imagination, and the reader may confide in its general statements, but the graphic and the picturesque element is always at the front. The racy style of the cultivated and trained journalist relieves bare facts "and transforms situations and characters. Thus, the stiff and stately John Wheelock would hardly recognize himself under the descriptive title of the "Crown Prince", and the "iron age" of the eighties may be, perhaps, a new interpretation to those whose college life was passed within it.

The humorous side of the story is always apparent, enforced by epithet, anecdote, and neatly turned phrase, yet the serious underlies it, and Mr. Quint has a genuine appreciation of the strongmen and the unceasing labor by which the College has been developed, and the successive administrations from the founding under Eleazar Wheelock to the "Great Awakening" under President Tucker are followed with sympathetic appreciation.

The chapter on "Old Traditions" has an interest that will, at least in part, be restricted to a small range of graduates, as it will not be long before the "characters" there mentioned, such as "Hod" Frary, "Old Dud", and "Lil" Carter, will have ceased to be more than unattached names in an unmarked past.

The book has sixteen illustrations of various college buildings, by John Albert Seaford, which by their softness of tone and artistic perspective add much to its attractiveness.

Mr. Quint has done well with his story and has made a readable book, whose perusal will give great pleasure to the graduates, students and friends of the College.

Wilder Dwight Quint, 1887, withillustrations by John Albert Seaford (Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1914)