Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Amid much that is good in the prose of the number, a sketch, entitled "As It is Done Now," might be selected as, on the whole, the most artistic piece of work. This, as all of the productions of its author's have been, is characterized by a simple vigor of expression, a boldness in conception of plot, and an excellent sense of the fitness of things. Mr. Flandrau excels rather in vivid descriptions than in character delineations, and in the sketch under discussion the descriptive portions are the best parts, for neither the hero nor the heroine...
...Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea of the tale is rather extravigant, vet it is well-worked out and the diction is more coherent than in some of its author's last efforts...
...Lawyer's Story" is a reminiscence of certain out-of-the-way events in which a notorious highwayman forms the central figure. There is a lack of unity about the whole and the climax is weak. With the events which the author describes, the plot should be much stronger than...
...York." In connection with this the Jewish Question is briefly treated of by an unknown writer. The feature of the number is an article by Capt. E. S. Godfrey, one of General Custer's troop commanders, on the massacre of the Little Big Horn, "Custer's Last Battle." The author advances a new theory with regard to Custer's movements. The article is followed by a critical review of the campaign by Gen. Fry. Dr. Wier Mitchell has his second instalment of Characteristics and Cole's "Old Masters" series is continued. The poetry of the number is unusually interesting...
Harvard men will find the frontispiece and the article immediately following it the most interesting parts in the New England Magazine for January. The title of each is "Phillips Brooks" and the author of the essay is Julius H. Ward, who has given us a most interesting account of the Bishop and his family. There are many illustrations - almost a score. The western men will find an article in the "City of St. Louis" much to their taste, as it is treated by Professor C. M. Woodward. This too abounds in illustrations - points of interest and public buildings...