Word: essays
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...essay on "John Aubrey," the ale-and-gossip-loving antiquary of the seventeenth century, is written in that discriminative but easy style which has heretofore characterized Mr. Duffield's work of a corresponding nature. Copious extracts from Aubrey's papers and books are proportionately intermingled with choice bits of narrative and with original observations in such a manner as to make the reading of it a profitable pleasure...
Amid so many good things in the October number of the Century it is difficult to choose articles of special value to Harvard men. Of particular interest to the majority of college students will be Edmund Gosse's critical essay on Rudyard Kipling, which is in the nature of a review of his literary work in prose and verse. Mr. Gosse has done his task in a careful, judicial spirit, and the result is an admirable estimate of an author with whom almost every one has become familiar in the past two years. A portrait of Mr. Kipling...
...following announcement has been made by the secretary of the Harvard Law School Association with regard to the annual prize of $100 offered for the best essay on any of the following subjects...
...Sarah Green Timmins prize of $100 for an essay upon Dante and His Times, offered for the first time this year by the Harvard Annex, has been awarded to Miss Lucy Allen Paton, who has nearly completed the course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, The title of the monograph is "The Personal Character of Dante as Revealed in his Writings...
...might almost call the May Monthly an Elizabethan number, as two of the three prose articles relate to Queen Elizabeth and certain phases of life of her time. Mr. Baker, the English instructor, contributes the first of these two articles-the title of his essay being "The Children of Paule's." In it a charming and interesting picture is given of the choir-boys of St. Paul's Cathedral, their life, duties and pleasures in the good old days when the Tudor family reigned over England. Much space is given to a description of their acting and the literary effect...