Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lost like gentlemen long enough," the third in advocacy of debating. The verse of the number includes a rollicking description of "The Maverick," who is evidently a free lance of the West, a use of the Word new to me, but a happy one, whether common or the author's invention; "Sistiana," honest and ambitions lines after reading "The Romaunt of the Rose," and "Autumn Wind," in which are some good lines...
...Jones '62" the author ingeniously uses the machinery of the old Christmas story as made famous by Dickens; the scene is Class Day and the mysterious visitants are Jones and Smith of '62, wraiths who return for the edification of Wolcott and Randolph, who have deserted the bath-tubs of the Gold Coast for the traditions of Holworthy. The story is well told, save that the writer has not learned the lesson of literary temperance in keeping for another occasion lines undoubtedly clever but out of place in their present use. Jones is made to win the Victoria Cross...
...Princeton University, received his degree of D.D. from Princeton in 1884, and was given an honorary degree by Harvard in 1894. For several years he has been a regular preacher in Appleton Chapel, and this year will conduct the services next Sunday and the Sunday following. As an author Dr. Van Dyke is very well known by such books as "The Blue Flower,' "Fisherman's Luck," and "The First Christmas Tree...
...History of the United States," volumes VI and VII., by J. F. Rhodes h.'01, presented by the author...
...five pieces in verse are as various in form as in subject. The author of "The Pickle of the Past," with a frank disclaimer of anything that makes for sentimentalism, gets down to the hardpan of wholesome boyish sentiment in a way that ought to delight his contemporaries; as it certainly will their fathers and uncles. "Cragan the Spalpeen" shows touches of Celtic with and spirit such as the author, if we may judge by his name, comes honestly by. The metre of line eleven halts badly and is easily amended. The author of "The Lecture-Tasters" is moderately funny...