Show STUDENT LIFE Heteure Moments There are two classes of fiction which the overworked student who now and then finds half an hour at his disposal may turn for mental relaxatoin and enjoyment They are the short story and those books which a recent writer happily calls “comfortable” novels By this apt phrase he characterizes such leisurely soothing novels as one may spend weeks and even months reading — very opposite cf those strenuous exciting often melo-dramat- ic tissues so eagerly perused by youthful readers but furnishing no relaxation for tired brains The short story is here brought to the attention of our numerous students because it is a form of ficticn the reading of which is both pleasant and profitable Moreover by its brevity it is eminently suited for “library reading” Many an unoccupied hour now wasted in futile small-tal- k or in scanning useless portions of the Sunday papers could and should be devoted to get-in- g acquainted with some of the masterpieces in this class of fiction Our library though not particular ly complete in its assortment of short stories has more than enough to fill all your spare hours for the rest cf the year The reading will be both pleasant and profitable — pleasant because the kind of stcry here meant is the masterpiece fully able to catch and maintain your interested attention to stir your pulses to kindle your imagination to enlist your sympathy and pity or pleasantly awaken mysterious sensations of horror —profitable because the kind of story under consideration will bring you (if this advice be followed ) into frequent contact with the choicest examples of choice literary workmanship In many respects particularly as to form the short story represents the Its pinnacle of prose literature brevity compels such concentration clearness and force as are found in few longer stories It is as it were the essence the extract of fiction composed of naught but the desirable elements particularly from a stylistic point of view The student will find here the best con- crete examples of the many ab- - |