Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third number of the Advocate, which appears today, although not so replete with good things as the last issue of this paper, has some excellent matter in it. The best story of the number in it. The best story of the number is "The Masquerade Ball." Mr. DeWolf, its author. has dealt in this particular bit of fiction with scenes and people widely different from those he delineated so well in his story "After Twenty Years," in the Advocate. The story which appears today is a student reminiscent sketch, depicting in a perfectly natural manner the abyss of mortification into...
...flirting-and the result is a delicate piquancy and delightful vivaciousness of style which is seldom characteristic of Advocate stories. There are one or two slight errors in the use of words, but the plot is original, and the story, on the whole, is very creditable to its author...
...After Twenty Years" stands in marked contrast to a "A Mutual Fraud" as regards character and treatment. It is a story reminding one of Hawthorne in its general simplicity and in certain descriptive touches. The plot of the story is slender and not particularly original, but the author counterbalances this by some truly excellent bits of description and character delineation. The old village doctor of Milford stands vividly before us, and the quiet humor of the first part stands in striking antithesis to the deep patnos of the latter part of the tale...
...Caucus in Ward Three" is a story of a caucus which meets for the nomination of an alderman. Several examples of the genus politician (including a man of unmistakable Irish accent), one or two jokes, and a short description have been poured into the author's crucible and the residuum is a political sketch, with no plot and of some interest...
...curious title of a story in two parts by the late William Douglas O'Connor, which has the place of honor in the Atlantic for April. It is a story of old London, and its ancient life is brought vividly before us by the ready imagination of the author. Francis Parkman's second paper on "The Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia" is marked by the still and care which Mr. Parkman devotes to everything he writes, and Mr. Stockton's "House of Martha" continues for three more chapters in its usual vivacious fashion...