Word: dialects
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Very different from "Counterfeiting," is J. A. Graydon's delightful Irish dialect story, "In the Study." Throughout this yarn there is a great deal of characterization, and in the homely, wholesome sayings of Terry, an Irish peasant, there is much "horse sense." The theme of the story is, of course, love; but there is nothing commonplace in the way in which this very conventional subject is treated. The phrasing used is slightly precocious, but this--if anything--adds to the charm of the story. In style, "In the Study" is the equal of any story which has appeared...
...most important contribution to the current number of the Advocate is an Irish dialect story, "A Village Paladin," by J. A. Graydon '01. After briefly picturing the town of Rosslea, on Fair Day, the writer describes the shop of Mickey Doonan, the village blacksmith, and then skilfully introduces upon the scene some of Mickey's "boon companions." In the dialogue which follows there is both vigor and movement, and wherever the writer used exposition or description there is always color and atmosphere. Towards the close of the story there are numerous little touches of humor, of which only a very...
...Moritz Rosenfeld of New York will give a reading from his Yiddish poetry under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein in the Fogg Lecture Room on April 18. Yiddish is a German dialect of the middle Rhine district, with some Hebrew and Slavic words incorporated into...
...WALDO RICHARDS will give a Story Reading and Dialect Recital, at Brattle Hall, Monday evening, Feb. 21, at 8.15 p. m. The programme will include selections from Robert Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, William Barnes, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mary E. Wilkins, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, F. Hopkinson Smith, and others. Tickets on sale at Thurston's. Price...
...WALDO RICHARDS will give a Story Reading and Dialect Recital, at Brattle Hall, Monday evening, Feb. 21, at 8.15 p. m. The programme will include selections from Robert Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene Field, William Barnes, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mary E. Wilkins, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, F. Hopkinson Smith, and others. Tickets on sale at Thurston's. Price...