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Word: davinci (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...begins with a description which is vivid and gives an atmosphere, and which further possesses a quality most rare in descriptions,- that of swiftness. But the swiftness is not maintained, and after this promising beginning the story declines unaccountably but yet perceptibly toward the common-place. The description of DaVinci's "La Gioconda by W. C. Arensberg 1900, is a remarkably subtle and sure bit of analytic character drawing. In spite of its inverted sentences a "Paragraph from Hawailan History," by W. R. Castle 1900, is readable and very interesting. Other contributions in the number are "A Comedy of Errors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 3/25/1898 | See Source »

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