Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fiction, "Our Tolstoi Club" by Dorothy Prescott is decidedly the best, if we except the two serials. It is an amusing story, filled with palpable hits at the provinciality and gossip of a Boston suburb. How "Gay's Romance," by the author of "The Anglomaniacs," will turn out, it is hard to say; the first chapters are not uninteresting...
Leslie Stephen, M. A., the editor and author has written a letter to the London Times in which he proposes that a fund be raised for the purpose of erecting a monument to James Russell Lowell in Westminister Abbey...
...college men will be the "Stories of Salem Witchcraft," by W. S. Nevins, whose writings must always have a peculiar interest to all who are familiar with his charming musical studies and sketches. A short article in "America in Early English Literature," by I. B. Choate, in which the author cites some of the "numberless references to the early colonists which cannot fail to arrest the attention of the reader of general literature, and which are of great value since they are the "unconscious expressions of the sentiment which prevailed in their day." The description of "Bryant's New England...
...English Amiel" is the late Mark Pattison, Rector of Lincoln College. Oxford. And Mr. Lovett has succeeded in this short essay of his in sketching the dominant characteristics of Pattison's nature, and in noting striking analogies between the morbidly sensitive Englishman and the author of the Journal Intime...
...slave Was Set Free" by William Vaughn Moody. As in almost all of Mr. Moody's poems, the language is vigorous and the thought sustained. That he has a large vocabulary and is able to use it well is one of the chief elements of whatever poetic strength the author may possess, - and one of the most notable features of the poem in question is the almost complete absence of commonplace expressions...