Word: amelia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...student of French history and literature will enjoy a profusely illustrated article by Amelia Gere Mason on "Salons of the Empire and Restoration." The salons of Madame de Montesson, Mme. de Remusat, Mme. Recamier, and other brilliant women of that age are vividly described and penpictures are drawn of the wits and geniuses who frequented them. The causes that led to the decline of the salon are indicated-chief among which was the rise in power of the press, for when the press assumed the sovereignty, the salon was dethroned...
Woman receives a fair share of attention. Amelia Gere Mason's "Women of the French Salons" discusses those of the eighteenth century, and Helen Gray Cone discusses "Woman in American Literature...
...proved a chestnut horse. "The Typical American," by Andrew Lang and Max O'Rell, is of the very frothiest substance. but the Lang half has a sparkle which the O'Rell one is totally without. "Audacity in Woman Novelises," by George Parsons Lathrop, is partly a reply to Mrs. Amelia E. Barr's "Corversational Immoralities" in the April number, and wholly an acknowledgement of woman's continually increasing position and power in fiction and the upon the whole salutary influence of that position. "The Hatred of England," by Goldwin Smith, rather exaggerates the extent of that hated which most...
Congressman W. C. P. Brechinridge continues the tariff discussion. Madame Adam sketches "Society in Paris" in a very gossipy and fashionable newspaper style. O. B. Bunce argues effectively that the reading public in America is much smaller than that of England. Mrs. Amelia E. Barr pleads for more restraint and modesty in our conversation that it may be better suited virginibus puerisque...
...Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming sketch of the Musee des Archives, with many excellent reproductions of old paintings and prints. The serials by Frank R. Stockton and Amelia E. Barr are continued. Professor Fisher continues his discussion of the Nature and Method of Revelation, and Joseph Jefferson his autobiography. There are also several short stories and essays...