Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Faculty of the Yale Divinity School has secured the acceptance of Rev. John Watson (Ian MacLaren), the celebrated English author, to deliver the lectures in the Lyman Beecher course this year. Mr. Watson has announced that he will lecture in this country in the fall and it is extremely fortunate that his first appearance is to be made before a Yale audience...
...Unbegotten Sons" is the most mature piece of fiction which has appeared in the Monthly for a long time. While the plot in a certain way is unreal, it is treated with unusual richness of imagination. The style is vivid and sensuous. It is pity that the author's analysis is not equal to his imagination. He brings together twin brothers, who see in each other no resemblance. They address each other as "child" and "old man" respectively. The Abbe of Cisley hates them with the most undying hatred because they were the illegitimate sons of his wife...
Samuel Gilman, 1811, Author of "Fair Harvard...
...singularly interesting work is announced by the Cambridge University Press. It is an elaborate study of convent life and saint worship, covering the period from the beginning of Latin Monasticism to the years just preceding the Reformation. The work is called "Woman under Monasticism." Its author is Lina Eckenstein...
...Parson's Proxy" is the name of a new story by Mrs. Kate W. Hamilton, author of "Rachel's Share of the Road," which will speedily appear from the Riverside Press...