Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Some Thoughts on University Education in the United States" is the title of the "graduate article" of the June number of the Monthly. The fact that the author, Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore, originally delivered the article in the form of an address at the laying of the corner stone of the Hall of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, in April of the present year must make it of peculiar interest to us. Harvard has always stood for the most liberal views not only in education but in religion, and this fact has been so emphasized...
...familiar with certain verses and charades which have appeared in some of the monthly magazines from time to time can be at loss to name the author of the three Charades; such clever turns and dainty phrazing can come from...
...Lord Angus." Lord Angus is a St. Bernard dog, and his character is an original one, so far as it goes, - at any rate it was certainly not in any way "cribbed" from Mr. Davis. Johnny, however, and "the owner," have appeared again and again in stories by the author of "Gallagher," who is very fond of portraying just such people, and the manner too in which they are spoken of, the suggestive little touches of style, are much the same. Nevertheless the story does not lose much even though it invites comparison with work of such acknowledged excellence...
...even when the one is done out of jealousy and the other for revenge, and "The Lilac Witch" suffers more from the comparison which it invites than does "Lord Angus." Still the story is much above the average, and is decidedly better than the last one by the same author, both in diction and form...
...Worth," by Henry B. Eddy, is more pretentious than any of the former poetry by the same author, and better. There are a number of rough places in it, but it is, on the whole, well done...