Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Copeland began the lecture by stating briefly the birth, lineage and circumstances of the author of "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of the Seven Gables," "The Blithedale Romance," and "The Marble Faun," Hawthorne was descended from William Hathorne, who came over to New England with Governor Winthrop. Both this first American ancestor and his son John were men of mark in the little colony. But they were also infamously noted, one for causing Shaker women to be whipped, the other for his cruel treatment of the Salem witches. John Hathorne, it is credibly reported, was cursed...
...Hawthorne's masterpiece, and is, in the lecturer's opinion, the greatest literary work of the imagination produced on this side of the water. The Blithedale Romance differs from all of Hawthorne's other works in containing Zenobia, the one dramatically conceived and completely expressed character which this author has offered us. But in many of their traits both the novels and the shorter tales are alike. The sense of sin is the cardinal motive and the dominant quality of all Hawthorne's work. But his treatment of sin never strikes upon the conscience. He uses the conscience rather...
Granted that the Latin poet depended upon a Greek model, it is next necessary to ascertain just to what degree the former imitated the latter. Until lately the investigation on this subject has been narrow, because the interest has been purely historical. Some authorities say that Plautus was simply a translator and an imitator, while others maintain that he treated his models with great freedom and originality. The latter opinion is probably more just, for the passage of plots from one author to another is permissible and common in the history of literature...
...book, "Uncle Sam's Church," has just appeared which bids fair to have a national success, The author, John Bell Bouton, considers the impossibility of a State religion, and advocates a National Patriotic Cult to take its place. To secure this new patriotism the people must have every day patriotic inspirations. The placing of the Federal Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in every post office, the free distribution by Congress of tracts on the lives of Washington (including his Farewell Address), Adams, Madison and Monroe, is but one of the methods to further this cult. The facilities which congress...
...book, "Uncle Sam's Church," has just appeared which bids fair to have a national success, The author, John Bell Bouton, considers the impossibility of a State religion, and advocates a National Patriotic Cult to take its place. To secure this new patriotism the people must have every day patriotic inspirations. The placing of the Federal Constitution and the Declaration of Independence in every post office, the free distribution by Congress of tracts on the lives of Washington (including his Farewell Address), Adams, Madison and Monroe, is but one of the methods to further this cult. The facilities which congress...