Word: bits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...brightest bit in the number - for its author is mindful of the old adage, that "brevity is the soul of wit" - is the first of the College Kodaks. It is a clever parody on the style of criticism which permeates the English department in general and which seems to be the particular hobby of English B and English 12 instructors in particular. In view of the character of the parody, one almost feels tempted to dub its author a "tonsorial artist." Although this first of the Kodaks out-ranks the rest, the second and third are worthy of notice...
...Comedy of Errors" impresses one as a clever bit of character-delineation - certainly as good a piece of prose as there is in the eighth number of the Advocate. In the mutual misunderstanding of the man and the woman, who are the sole human characters of the sketch, we recognize certain phases of the story of Beatrice and Benedict - modernized. What constitutes the chief charm of the sketch is the directness of thought and expression, terseness in phrasing, and the simplicity shown in introducing perhaps the most important character of the tale, Chimborazo, the match-making...
...January Atlantic Monthly is a very strong number. Mr. Henry James has a delightful article of reminiscence and criticism on James Russell Lowell; it treats of Mr. Lowell's London life and will be of interest to all Harvard men. There is an odd bit entitled "Boston" by Emerson. It contains a most interesting characterization of the traits of the town and its inhabitants, and is full of Emersonian phrases. Miss Calls article on "The Greatest Need of College Girls" is interesting and is refreshing from the very nature of the subject. There are a couple of clever pieces...
...died, having requested that his body be placed in a chest and set afloat and also that Grim should settle wherever the chest was washed ashore. The request was followed out implicitly. Grim had also two sons, one of them the hero Egil. He was a precocious youth; a bit of poetry remains, which he is said to have written in his third year. He grew up, courageous and bold, and began the villianous side of his career when he was eleven by killing a playmate. Later he went to England and aided the King against the Scots. Then...
...bit piece of prose in the number is a short description "By the Banks of the San Sebastian." It is only half a page long, and therefore its wit has a soul. It is a pen picture, carefully but vividly drawn of a tragedy by moonlight in a Spanish city and, to avail ourselves of technical language, we would say that the connotation of every sentence and paragraph is admirable...