Word: critics
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students who have already sent in their votes for members of the American "Academy" to the Critic are requested to send us copies, as we wish to see what Harvard's choice would be. Such contributors should state the fact that they have already communicated with the Critic...
...admit that there is a literature which can be characterized as peculiarly American. The relative merits of this body of men-of-letters as compared with a similar body of English or French writers is a question that we can hardly be expected to discuss. A correspondent of the Critic asks why America should not have an institution similar to the French academy. He feels sure that America has forty living literary men who are worthy of being classed among the "immortals," and calls upon the Critic to constitute itself a ballot box for the election...
This week's New York Critic contains a long article on secret societies in college, and devotes most of the essay to Yale...
...poor lot. One must turn to France to find a contemporary dramatist of the right kind. Augier, who is a master of plays, a thinker, and a master of style. Mr. Boyesen has been known to our public during several years, as an author-as a novelist, poet, and critic. It may fairly be said that he is an American author, though he is a Norwegian. His romances and stories have exhibited a sensitive mind, an observant sight, and bright fancy. "Gunnar" and the "Idyls of Norway" are fresh and genuine expressions of his nature. His first play "Alpine Roses...
Modern Greece is full of college graduates. The South American republics have plenty of Bachelors of Arts ready to make pronunciamentos. But these nations do not carry the school system out properly among the lower classes, and their universities are wedded to antiquated ideas. [Critic...