Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scene of this story is "Drumtochty" and many of the characters in the "Bonnie Brier Bush" and "Days of Old Lang Svne" reappear in its pages. The author tells the story of the strong and simple love of Carmichael, a Covenanting Minister, and Kate Carnegie, a girl of Jacobite descent, and the stress between their mutual love on the one side, and their political and religious differences on the other, furnishes material for a story full of delightful situations in which the author moves the reader's sympathies and appeals to his sense of humor. Those, however, who came...
...unpublished letters to his father, wife, children, and to many famous persons. But much of the refinement and delicacy of phrase is lost in the translating; and the reader feels that he is hearing Hugo's words from the lips of some one else and not from the author himself...
...Professor Child published his first edition of "English and Scottish Ballads," the greatest work of that description that had appeared up to that time; but afterwards he edited a new edition entitled "English and Scottish Popular Ballads," and this work has gained worldwide renown for its author. Its extent cannot be comprehended until a person understands that this collection was compiled directly from the old folk lore of every nation of Europe, and required not only a great genins but many years of careful search and study...
...Author, Editor, Teacher, Preacher, Helper...
...Strange Story," by D. Winter, seems to have been rightly named, for it is unreal in the extreme. The author, after leading his readers through a mass of unreality to a tragic climax, leaves off abruptly, offering no clue of any kind to the mystery. The stroy is ineffective largely on this account...