Word: bits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...features of the number. Miss Hapgood, although admiring his great gifts, is not a blind adherent of his changeable philosophies. Her sketch is therefore clever and trenchant and it must be read if one would understand Tolstoy better than perhaps he understands himself. It is a useful bit of information for the layman that the name Tolstoy with the y is the writer's own way of spelling his own name, and not a typographical error...
Seriously something ought to be done. Men now have to spend an inordinate amount of time in waiting for a chance to bathe; indeed they often have to be satisfied with splashing before the set basins. Then when a man finally does get possession of some bit of apparatus he has to hurry through his ablutions so as not to keep the crowd waiting. All is hurry and confusion, and all is unsatisfactory. The college has long since outgrown its wash-tub, and another must be bought...
Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the number is W. F. B.'s "Tatler Paper" after Sir Richard Steele. Its author has reproduced Steele's style in an admirable manner, and throughout the whole there is charming vivaciousness of touch. The appended verses show a commendable delicacy...
...Desolate" is another pathetic bit of word-sketching, and "A Satire" is an excellent piece of dramatic description...
Perhaps the most original bit of prose in the number is "A Plea for the Higher Education of Apparitions." In it there are several bright ideas and humorous turns of thought, the slight plot of the whole hinging on the ignorance which a spirit-visitor displays in not knowing the difference in time between London and New York...