Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...little volume, being a short series of pen sketches written after a considerable sojourn in Egypt. These who are at all familiar with Mr. Fullerton's work will recognize at once in those vivid and picturesque sketches the charming personality of the writer: while to those unacquainted with the author and his writing, the sketches cannot but prove of more than ordinary interest and profit. The scholarly side of Mr. Fullerton's character shows in the chapters on Egyptian religion where of Mr. Fullerton's researches will have a very considerable value...
...January Outing - the holiday number - comes to us abounding in stories of snow and winter. That tale which would prove the most interesting to Harvard men is "A Christmas Ascent of Mount Adams," and because the author is himself an undergraduate - J. Corbin '92. The story is the description of an ascent of a mountain and deals almost entirely with the account of the climb and return. It is in parts cleverly written and is interesting, which is always praise. Walter Camp contributes a practical article on "Training." He points out the difference in the meaning of the term "training...
...most delightful character sketches which has appeared in the Advocate for some time is "The Awakening of Benjamin Franklin" ("last name, Jones," as the author himself parenthetically states). It is a little darkey of thirteen years, for whom heroine-worship does wonders, that the author describes and the touches of local color are carefully laid on. It is distinctly the best piece of prose in the issue...
...Spiteful Story" is the longest article of the number and is a well-written piece of fiction. The theme of the story is rather threadbare but the tale itself is certainly a carefully drawn picture of real life and its author has adopted an easy, colloquial style with much success...
...Inartistic Hero," in a certain quaintness of conception and peculiarity of style, reminds us of its author's production in the last number of the Advocate, "Husband versus Poet." The idea of the tale is original and the effect is, on the whole, good, - although marred in places by incoherence of diction...