Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first two chapters of William Henry Bishop's new serial, "The Golden Justice," appear in the Atlantic for May. Charles Egbert Craddock's installment of 'In the Clouds" is in her best manner. Henry James continues his "Princess Casamassima" in characteristic style. The fiction of the number is completed by a sketch of New England life, "Marsh Rosemary," by Sarah Orne Jewett. Mr. John Fiske continues his papers on American History by one treating of "The Weakness of the American Government under the Articles of Confederation." Mr. E. P. Evans has a paper on "The Aryan Homestead...
...CRIMSON that the story is "incongruous and lacks force," it must have struck many readers that here, with all due deference to the CRIMSON, be it said, we have a story of remarkable beauty and force, one which stands forth pre eminent from the ordinary ruck of college fiction, and for which we should be duly thankful...
...suggested a number of topics for individual work during the last half year, topics which could, without too much dilution, be taken up as the subjects for regular lectures. Courses in pre-Shakespearian drama, on Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors in play-writing, on the development of English fiction, on English verse in its several kinds and stages, on the English essayists, and many similar subjects, would all be very useful. Or, it might possibly be better to have courses arranged to cover certain periods of time. However matters of detail may be decided, it is certain that there...
...been anything but religious, caught the infection and sneered at that of which they knew nothing, and having used their war-worn phrases, passed them on to the Bungtown Clarion and sheets of a like stamp which flourish on the plains of Texas. According to this highly tinted fiction, Harvard is a hot-bed of incipient Nihilism and irreligion. Let us look at the question of irreligion for a moment. The statement on its face is a reproach, if not an insult, to the parents and friends of every Harvard student. For by their advice he has been...
...duty to give from time to time as urgent an appeal as is possible, in behalf of the Annex. The writer has been called to this duty by a recent suggestion which has come to his notice, a suggestion which bears with it, however, more of fiction than of truth, more of air-castle building than of tangible reality. This suggestion is that the Annex buy the grounds and buildings of the Episcopal School on Brattle street. The suggestion is at least an ingenious one, and is important inasmuch as it emphasizes the great need of the Annex...