Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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First of all American illustrators stands Abbey. His resources are inexhaustible. Whenever he is called on to interpret a work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
...Proposal," by L. W. Mott and L. How. The hero's unfortunate experiment with a phonograph in connection with a matrimonial proposal, is very entertaining. Somewhat less so, though still good, is C. G. Christian's "Ambition Lowly Laid." "On Beacon Hill," by A. C. Train is, as its author calls it, a sketch, and is very well drawn...
...Monthly for December opens with an article by Reginald C. Robbins,- "One of our Criminals." The author tells the story of a switchman whom drink brings to misfortune, and misfortune to the crime of manslaughter through a mistake in switching. As a whole, the story is very well written; but it has some minor faults which spoil its full effectiveness, though they do not by any means destroy the interest of the tale. It is not well to attach any great importance to a presumably careless slip, but it is amusing to hear of a dying wife "gazing forth contentedly...
...other articles of fiction in the number are "The Joyless Asphodel," by William V. Moody, and "The Pale Stranger," by Julian Palmer Welsh. In the former, the author shows the material for a very pretty and interesting story, which he fails to do full justice in the working up. "The Pale Stranger" betrays a lack of originality; for the unknown princely guest who sings a mysterious song and then disappears, leaving the fair maiden dead behind him, is hardly without parallel in fairy tale and legend...
...Monk Lewis-An Unknown Celebrity," Lindsay T. Damon gives a study of Matthew Gregory Lewis, translator, novellist, and ballad-monger of the early part of this century. "Three Recent Essayists" is best described in the words of the author as "a gossip in personalities, suggested by their treatment of Dumas"; the personalities being those of Mr. H. E. Henley, Mr. Andrew Lang, and Mr. Robert Louis Stevenson...