Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...least, interesting reading. It is a series of letters purporting to tell the story of a boy, who, isolated from the world during his youth, finds life a bitter disappointment. The story is well told, with a tender, though sad, picturing of nature and life. The author's conception of boy-life is at times a bit strained and unreal, but more often consistent and true to nature. The style is good throughout, and in places admirable. The author excels in word-painting, which gives to her descriptions a living quality which they would otherwise lack. In her endeavor...
Charles Emerson Cook '93 is the author of "The Walking Delegate," which is soon to be produced at the Tremont Theatre...
...book by Margaret Deland, entitled "The Wisdom of Fools." It is a series of short sketches of the lan Maclaren type, dealing with life in a manufacturing town in the West. The one thing which makes itself almost painfully apparent throughout is the cynicism of the author. In a sarcastic manner she sneers at the existing social system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors and all poor men injured and down-trodden. The general impression left...
...other hand, much in the book is cleverly done, although the author is at times unreal. The descriptions are especially good, leaving a crisp and vivid impression in the mind of the reader...
Perhaps the most popular numbers of the evening were those given by Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith and Miss Ruth McEnery Stuart. The former is well known as the author of "Colonel Carter of Cartersville" and other delightful sketches of Southern life. He read two of the selections from "Colonel Carter" in a truly charming vein, capturing his audience completely. Miss Stuart also read one of her sketches of Southern life-"Maria's Mo'nin'." The sketch itself runs in a vein of contagious humor, and Miss Stuart read it in a manner calculated to bring out all there...