Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...what Louisa Muhlbach pictured in a more romantic manner in "Henry VIII and his Court." It is an episode is the great queen's life which is interesting even to the most indifferent student of history. It was Sir Thomas Seymour whom Elizabeth loved, and, as the author of this sketch puts it, "In her love for him she came near wrecking her happiness for his sake, and the sorrowful ordeal dried up all the freshness of her nature...
...Rational Cure," the only bit of fiction in the number, is an excellent piece of work. While the plot as a whole has no particular originality, there are a number of minor incidents which Mr. Hapgood has treated in a fresh and novel manner. The author has woven into his cloth several threads of Boston Bohemianism, Beacon Street society, and man's affection requited and the whole forms a fabric at once compact and pleasing...
...will no doubt find Mr. Adams' description of old time methods of conducting newspapers much to his liking; for at the time of which Mr. Adams wrote, little or no stress was laid upon enterprise. At any rate the general reader will be greatly entertained by the author's citation of humorous notices and quaint paragraphs...
...exiled "Loyalists," that band of men opposed to the colonies in the Revolutionary war, whose banishment has passed with but scant notice and has evoked very little sympathy, and in whose ranks were included some of the brightest and ablest minds in the thirteen colonies; and the author regrets that they were all banished for he thinks it was a loss to the country. "Early Dorchester," will have a special attraction for Boston men as considerable personal history is given in Mrs. Whitman's article, especially of the Minot and Eliot families...
Among the "Other Verses" the "Two Answers to Why I Read Herrick" and "Montauk Point" illustrate the range of Mr. Garrison's serious work. "Manque," which ends the volume, is extremely fine and belies its own estimate of its author's muse. As for us we believe in the promise contained in itself, and expect greater things from the last of our Harvard poets...