Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Amid much that is good in the prose of the number, a sketch, entitled "As It is Done Now," might be selected as, on the whole, the most artistic piece of work. This, as all of the productions of its author's have been, is characterized by a simple vigor of expression, a boldness in conception of plot, and an excellent sense of the fitness of things. Mr. Flandrau excels rather in vivid descriptions than in character delineations, and in the sketch under discussion the descriptive portions are the best parts, for neither the hero nor the heroine...
"Mathieu's Torture Post" is a pathetic character sketch of a Paris painter who in his feverish enthusiasm for art allows his only friend, a little fellow much younger than himself, to hang from a post, head down, in a torturing position in order that he may have a model...
"Zeke, a Portrait" is a study in rustic character of some power. The portrait is painted in a careful manner, although the colors are not laid on with that spontaneity of touch which is necessary to a vividness of portraiture.
The edition is in two volumes, the first dealing with land birds, the second with game and water birds. At the beginning of each chapter is an excellent print of the bird described, followed by a brief description of the plumage, the nest and eggs. The biographies are full and...
It is perhaps worth mentioning, in connection with these meetings, that there has been a change this year in the method of governing the observances of the local associations. Generally the subjects for the different evenings are prescribed by the association for all its branches, so that the services of...