Word: blackness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Scotland has always been a home of literature, Mr. Black said, the names of Scott, Burns, and Carlyle being written on the pages of its history. The literature of Scotland has seldom been higher than it is at the present...
...Charlton Black gave the second of his course of readings, from the works of contemporary Scotch authors, last evening in Brattle Hall...
...Black then read some reminiscences of Edinburgh University by J. M. Barrie, and Robert Louis Stevenson; and extracts from "The Stickett Minister," and "Why David Oliphant Remained in the Faith of his Fathers," by S. L. Crockett," and "A Window in Thrums," by J. M. Barrie...
...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...
...Black then read a few of Barrie's sketches of the Edinburgh University professors, and extracts from "Shutting a Map," "My Tobacco Pouch," and "A Window in Thrums...