Word: contributor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...With pedantic pen and labored toil B. sings of the "Wail of the Whip-poor-Will," and if his lines help out the editor of the Bugle, and are printed, a fond mother weeps in joy over the promise of her son, and the Century registers a new contributor. C. is taking Phil. I. He breaks forth into an exegesis of Hedonism. The readers of the Bugle read and simply wonder. Perhaps it is all right, perhaps not. No one pauses to ask. It is not strange, however, if in future C's contributors are passed with suspicion. D. sings...
...every man, including those who took the examinations this fall. The other features of this number are an article on the athletic outlook, several bright stories and poems, an able essay on Hawthorne's "Marble Faun," items and brief book reviews. The "Leader" is by Clinton Scollard, a frequent contributor to the Century and Life. The Advocate appears in its increased size...
...last named sheet, we really have had no literary paper for some years. We have had a humorous paper, a light-almost dilettantic-paper, and a newspaper; and the change in the character of our periodicals does not seem to have proved beneficial to the literary training of contributors. The contributor to the magazine was put upon his metal to write the best essay or criticism in his power. It was in work of this kind that such men as Edward Everett, Cornelius C. Felton, J. O. Sargeaut, James Russell Lowell, Rufus King. James Freeman Clark, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...contributor to the Nation attacks the literary merit of translations from the classics, saying that most of them are "comparatively worthless...
...Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone Boy," and a Mexican travel paper, " A Plunge into Summer," by Sylvester Baxter, complete the longer articles of the number. The usual book reviews and short notices, together with the Contributor's Club (which contains a criticism of Mr. Watts's pictures), close this issue. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...