Word: authorizes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this instantly with any translation of Shakespeare even into German, the language which has the nearest affinities of blood with our own. A translation can enable us to form a just enough estimate of an author's general power of mind, of a poet's constructive ability, but the very best of them cannot render for us that which is the characteristic of all great and individual writing, namely, Style, any more than a plaster cast can reproduce a marble statue. Shakespeare, you recollect, with that inevitable...
There are some translations which have almost the merit of original works, like Sir Thomas Urquhart's of Rabelais, for instance, but it is almost impossible that any foreigner should acquire that perfect intimacy with the niceties of a language which is essential to the thorough comprehension of an author and especially a poet. Both Tieck and Schlegal have mined very deep in the genius of Shakespeare, of his power and art they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give...
...unknown author of "A Crime" has done well in his description of a murderer impelled by consciousness of petty wrongs done him, and perhaps also by a slight insanity, which the whole tone of the story suggests...
...plot are well handled, and the result is a tale more striking and effective than the average. Although the style is far removed from that of Kipling, there is a suggestion that the details of the chief character may have been taken from the works of that author. The remaining two stories, "An Undiscovered Sacrifice," by Felix Norris, and "The Murder," by W. T. Denison, are less interesting. They are of that rather negative merit which characterizes most college fiction, neither very good nor very...
...college, Mr. Black said, Barrie was a great favorite with his classmates, but much as he was beloved by them for his manly and beautiful character, few of them ever imagined that he was soon to acquire a world wide reputation as an author. He was a quiet fellow and good at his studies. After leaving college he went into journalism from which he finally branched off as an author. In 1889 he published his best known work, "A Window in Thrums," and in 1892, "A Little Minister," and this last named book is the last work that Barrie...