Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...land itself. The book differs from ordinary guide-books in that it is distinctly readable. The geography of the country is thoroughly described and well illustrated by specially prepared maps. The gold mines are located and the conditions of life in all parts of Alaska discussed. The author, who is an authority on all subjects relating to our far west, is himself deeply interested in the land and writes from the point of view of a lover rather than of a casual observer of the region. The last part of the book is devoted to historical data about Alaska...
...summary of the play has been written by Dekker the author of the play. It is as follows: "Sir Hugh Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, had a young gentleman of his own name, his near kinsman, that loved the Lord Mayor's daughter; to prevent and cross which love, the Earl caused his kinsman to be sent as colonel of a company into France; he resigned his place to another gentleman, his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower street, who served the mayor and his household with shoes; the merriment which...
...eighth and last lecture in the course on "English Novelists" will be given at eight o'clock this evening, in Sever 11. The subject will be George Eliot. After brief comment on the author's life, Mr. Copeland will discuss her genius for literature, and the ways in which it was helped and hindered by her ethical enthusiasms and the scientific tendencies of the time...
...pieces of verse are "Love Came and Went" and "Home Coming." The former is by Maxwell Savage '99; modesty or some other motive has prevented the author from signing the latter, which is very long...
...subject of Mr. Copeland's fourth lecture-to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock this evening-is Tobias Smollett, author of "Roderick Random," "Peregrine Pickle," and "Humphrey Clinker." The lecture will be part biography, part criticism. In the treatment of Smollet's work, his novels will be discussed not only in themselves, but in their degree of contrast to the novels of Fielding and Thackeray, and their degree of likeness to those of Dickens...