Word: dictional
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Another excellent piece of prose is "A Christmas Story." The chief charm of the story lies in its excessively incongruous conclusion, - a conclusion for which the the first part of the story does not prepare one in the slightest. The diction is good...
...degrees, although the end does not come till Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea of the tale is rather extravigant, vet it is well-worked out and the diction is more coherent than in some of its author's last efforts...
...certain quaintness of conception and peculiarity of style, reminds us of its author's production in the last number of the Advocate, "Husband versus Poet." The idea of the tale is original and the effect is, on the whole, good, - although marred in places by incoherence of diction...
...only other poetry of the number is a rondean, "In Harvard 5." The lines are characterized by much smoothness and elegance of diction, although Dobson's touch is lacking...
...anonymous "Sonnet" deserves much praise for its quiet elegance of diction, and "An Oxford Poem" is interesting as a clever parody on Mocaulay's Lays...