Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Norman Hapgood contributes a lengthy criticism of "Browning as a Dramatist." Though the article is landatory, the author acknowledges that Browning lacked many qualities of a successful dramatist. He does not submit with good grace to the necessary machinery of the stage, and lacks also constructive power: his plots are strong in general conception, but weak in matters of detail. Mr. Hapgood then proceeds to examine Browning's dramas, beginning with the less important ones and passing thence to those which may really be called acting plays, Strafford, A Blot in the 'Scutcheon, and the Return of the Druses. This...
...Bacon as essayists, to the advantage of the Frenchman. He argues that in spite of superficial resemblances there is a decided antithesis between the two men, that of personality. We read Bacon for his thoughts alone, whereas in Montaigne we find the pure thought everywhere tinctured by the author's nature...
...Masquerade" continues the Marvin series. Like its predecessors, it is written in the neutral tinted style of Henry James. It is long drawn out and pointless, though the author shows skill in expression...
...Dame a la Clef" is far less faulty than previous work by its author, who succeeds very well in working up a trifling incident. Perhaps, however, the author was not aware that his friend M. Lebon was telling him, in a slightly altered form, a familiar story in which a jealous husband walls up the stranger in the closet, instead of locking him in and then setting fire to the house...
...number contains an unusual amount of verse. "At the Beach" is a pretty trifle of a few lines. "A Hope" is also a pleasant fancy. "Oh ! Lady Fair," though in itself commendable, is not as good as some of the work by the same author in recent numbers of the Advocate...