Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Fine Arts Department and of others loaned from private collections, and they all will amply repay half an hour's inspection. Some of the sketches by Turner, as well as the copies by Ward, are of particular interest, being highly characteristic of the dashing style of the author, and to those who have never seen his larger works, they will prove a valuable supplement to the courses in fine arts, which they may have followed here. Among other notable sketches are some studies by Ruskin and a series of illustrations by Darte and Gabriel Rossetti, which should attract much attention...
...called an eventful one; he passed the most of his days in quiet and peace, "within the shade of his own fig tree." The many blessings that fortune had given him enabled him to live apart from the noise and strife of the more unfortunate part of society. The author of this work, however, Mr. Sloane Kennedy, a graduate of Yale, has succeeded most admirably in his attempt to present all the important things connected with Longfellow's life, in a very attractive form. While the book possesses none of the garrulity or impudent inquisitiveness of minor affairs that makes...
...receipt of a copy of Mr. Fuller's new novel, "Forever and a Day." The author's name and works have long been known to readers of the college press, and this, his first work, will not disappoint those whose expectations have been based upon his former excellent sketches. The scene is laid in the town of Penford, not a dozen miles from Boston, and the author, under the guise of a novel, describes exceedingly well the society and people of one of the many smaller towns which surround Boston and serve as homes for those whose business calls them...
...absorbed look and unelastic step, the probable consequence of his labors and his watching," and then the sport, "the neglecter of his lesson, with his fine clothes, his gay air, and genteel manners, and the fame of his merry-makings." Dismal are his conclusions drawn from the contrast. The author treats his text under the following sub-heads: 1. "We are an insulated community;" 2. "College is a place where the great purpose of all is apt to be forgotten, and their most valuable possession - i. e., time - to be unappreciated;" 3. "We live here in an undomestic and unsocial...
...instructive courses, should not have already undertaken to supply the demand among her own pupils. Many think that short-hand is of value only to newspaper reporters; but the truth is, that there is no man engaged in literary work, whether he be lawyer, minister, editor or author, who will not find, and repeatedly prove, a practical knowledge of short-hand writing of great...