Word: brier
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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LOST.- A brier pipe, 'varsity model and amber mouthpiece, at or near Harvard square, on Saturday night. Finder will please return to 50 Claverly Hall and receive reward...
...doubtless known to many that during the coming week the eminent Scotch author, Dr. John Watson (Ian Maclaren), is to visit Boston and to deliver lectures there. It is probably safe to say that as the author of the Bonnie Brier-Bush stories, Dr. Watson is more widely known and admired than any other author of recent years. Many will doubtless avail themselves of the opportunity to hear this remarkable man; but there will be many more who, for various reasons will be unable to do so. If, however, Dr. Watson could be persuaded to come to Cambridge, the entire...
...scene of this story is "Drumtochty" and many of the characters in the "Bonnie Brier Bush" and "Days of Old Lang Svne" reappear in its pages. The author tells the story of the strong and simple love of Carmichael, a Covenanting Minister, and Kate Carnegie, a girl of Jacobite descent, and the stress between their mutual love on the one side, and their political and religious differences on the other, furnishes material for a story full of delightful situations in which the author moves the reader's sympathies and appeals to his sense of humor. Those, however, who came...
...show the character of the work. The book he says, "is exactly what its title represents it to be, some college verse - and nothing more." He hopes "that it may find a corner in the domain of lighter verse, that it may be a congenial complement to the old brier root during some idle hour of undergraduate life, and that it may awaken in those who have left their Alma Mater, the sleeping memories of that happy, careless past, - memories which neither time nor adversity nor absence can efface...