Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...advantages for solitude of a corner. "A Forgotten Episode," is a story of Indian wrongs by Americans fifty years ago known to history as the "Spoliation of the Cherokees." Over the Teacups is as bright as ever but somewhat more sharp. Dr. Holmes cannot resist swinging his Damascus blade over literary aspirants who have nothing but aspiration. The three long stories roll on serenely, and critical, semicritical, and uncritical treatment of Tennyson, Lucy Laroom and Mrs. Cheney's Miss Alcott with The Contributor's club complete the number...