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...Rogers' poem called a "Ballad of Errant Vespers" is not only pleasantly free from the fads of current writing, but it seems to the reviewer to possess genuine literary quality in a higher degree than anything else that these pages have to offer. The conception is original and imaginative, the movement direct and easy; rhythm, language, and sound are adroitly suited to the ideas. Above all, the verses are distinguished by that rare and precious characteristic, spontaneity...
...knight errant game we go to play. We do not make war by tourneys and by jousts while courtly ladies look on. We do not make war by tourneys and by jousts while courtly ladies look on. We must prepare ourselves in terrible earnestness for the fierce efficiency of war. Each man who is truly and wisely patriotic will fit himself for that work in which he is proficient, and accept whatever place needs his special abilities. We may not all be captains in the company. But we should prove to ourselves what we may do, then accept our duty...
...essays on the late Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson reveal a type of Harvard man all too little known to us today. In the gentle-voiced, frail, friendly Cantabrigian who so recently died, few could have recognized the ardent lover of all that was adventurous and free; the knight-errant champion of Abolition; a man who could lead a mob and who could plot gloriously for jail-deliveries as well as for deliveries from prisons of the mind. As Unitarian minister, as mob leader, as captain of the 51st Massachusetts Volunteers, and as colonel of the first colored regiment of actual...
...fiction is, as usual, of uneven merit. "The City of Hoggsville" and "Adin Ray Knight Errant" are slight, but distinctly amusing. "Room-mates" introduces a good situation, but the difficulty is not sufficiently explained by the subsequent appearance of a cheap and consumptive sister to the mysterious "mate." "A Hater of Pictures" is written, perhaps intentionally, in that racy style that one associates with tracts, but the denouement is cleverly concealed till the last sentence, and then it is so sudden that the it leaves the reader gasping...
...added 47 volumes of the Tauchnitz edition under the following titles: "A Daughter of Heth," "Judith Shakespeare," "Macleod of Dare," "Shandon Bells," "In Silk Attire," "The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton," "Three Feathers," by W. Black; "The Indiscretion of the Duchess," by A. Hope; "In the Golden Days," "Knight-Errant," "We Two," by E. Lyall; "A Sailor's Sweetheart," by W. C. Russell; "Sketches in Italy," "New Italian Sketches," by J. A. Symonds; "The Initials," "Quits," by Baroness Tautphoeus; "Can You Forgive Her?", "The Duke's Children," "The Prime Minister," by A. Trollope; "Mr. Smith," by L. B. Walford; "Marcella...