Word: blackburns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...good government "now our most vital concern."- (a) They are successfully making the most determined fight for honest government: Harper's, XL, 266-7; Nation, LXII, 172-3.- (x) In New York agains Hill.- (w) In Maryland against Gorman.- (y) In Ohio against Brice.- (z) In Kentucky against Blackburn.- (b) The Republicans have failed to achieve any practical results in this line: Harper's, XL, 266-67; Nation, LXII, 245-6.- (x) Quay is a despot in Penn; Beston Herald, April 3, 1896; Nation, LXII, 170.- (y) Platt "most powerful boss the state (i. e. New York) has ever seen...
...Walter Blackburn Harte, of Boston, has recently brought out a new magazine which he calls the Fly Leaf. It is in minature, on the order of the Chap Book and has about as little provocation. These little publications of indecent drivel are cropping up in such numbers that they have become a positive plague. The great danger is that, in time, people may come to take them seriously. So long as they are regarded as comic papers, however, they will be harmless if not amusing...
...Magazine opens with an interesting study of Canadian journalism by Walter Blackburn Harte. It is an article that will attract journalists and laymen in every corner of America, and it will appeal to the former more especially from the fact that the writer is a newspaper man and knows the difficulties of the craft from the inside. Mr. Hart's remarks, "In a Corner at Dodsley's," on the tendencies of contemporary literature to dispense altogether with literary men, are animated and amusing. Mr. Harte says: "The days of literary men in literature is over. It is now the triumphal...
...Canadian Art and Artists," W. Blackburn Harte shows the growth of art life in Canada, and reveals incidentally the strange public indifference toward art which prevails in the commercial centers of the Dominion. The article is well illustrated, and contains portraits of all the leading Canadian artists, and examples of some of their best and most representative work. In an article on "The United States Patent System," Mr. James Shepard, a well-known electrical expert, gives an intelligent and comprehensive account of the statutory provisions for patent protection from the day of the first Congress; and he also makes...
...senior class at Williams elected officers as follows: President, W. O. Sidley; orator, R. M. Blackburn; poet, E. S. Merrill...