Word: authority
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unpretentious little sketch called "A Maker of Monuments" is written with such sympathetic tenderness that we feel as if its central figure, a dear old Colonel, whom we see writing his reminiscences of the war and smoking among his roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that...
...Thread of Gold," by the author of The House of Quiet...
...Buehler is instructor of English as well as head-master of the Hotchkiss School. An educator and a clergyman, he is also the author of several books on subjects relating to secondary education, and has edited Macaulay's "Life of Johnson." Having spent many years of his life in the town of Gettysburg, Mr. Buehler has had an excellent opportunity for making an exhaustive investigation, as well as for learning many of the personal experiences of the soldiers, and of those living in the vicinity during the three days' fighting. This lecture has been delivered many times, and has gained...
...Jones is the author of "Mrs. Dane's Defence," "The Middleman," and other well-known works. He will speak next week at Yale University, and these two lectures will form the first and second chapters of a book he is preparing under the title of "The Harvard Lecture...
...invitation of the Department of English, Henry Arthur Jones, author of "Mrs. Dane's Defence." "The Middleman," and other well-known works, will deliver a lecture on "Some Corner Stones of the Modern Drama" on Wednesday, October 31, at 4.30 o'clock, in Sanders Theatre...