Word: dialectal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...either Jewish or Christian. The Jewish is represented by some parts of the books of Ezra and Daniel. The Christian form is commonly called Syriac. No pre-Christian literature exists. Such a literature probably arose with the pagan culture; but with the translation of the Bible into the Aramaic dialect of Odyessa, it disappeared...
...only French in its materials, for it has been worked up by an English artist of genius. Unfortunately, this poet, though second only to Chaucer in his century, is unknown. The whole poem contains the highest artistic, religious and ethical purpose. It is written in a more northern dialect than Chaucer's. The metre is a combination of alliterative metre and rhyme, and, as is generally the case with such verse the language is somewhat rich and artificial...
...Albany, N. Y., will speak of "The Irishman in Recent Fiction." He is 21 years of age and went to school at the Albany Academy, Albany. He has been an editor of the Advocate all through his college course. Most of his stories in that paper have been Irish dialect stories...
...Week: The Unseemly Popularity of Dialect Writing; The New Society...
...Feminology" is based on rather a novel conception, and would be interesting if only the idea were better worked up. The number also contains an amusing dialect story of "Henry Clay's Conversion," by J. P. Warren...