Word: fictions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means so simple a matter as analysis would seem to show. And so it is with an added pleasure that we find here a tale whose very remoteness has a distinct charm in that it brings before us moods and motives as far removed from...
...place among the best romances of late years. We believe that "The Duchess Amelia" places Mr. Wendell in the front rank of our younger authors. No work that has come before our notice of late has given more promise, or shown more strength than this latest addition to American fiction...
Question: "The value of Recent American Work in Fiction discussed and illustrated...
...been recently suggested, either seriously or sarcastically, that there be compiled in one or two volumes a collection of "Notes and Comments on famous Works of History and Fiction in the Harvard University Library,"-the basis of the work to be the extremely brilliant and exquisite marginal notations that have in past years accumulated on the pages of the different works. Such a collection would doubtless meet with a great deal of favor-with as much favor, possibly, as the notes themselves in their present written form have met with. It is refreshing-to the reader (to him especially...
...Devil has always been my favorite character in fiction. And, if we may judge by the extent to which he figures in the literature of every age since the Christian era, he has always been a favorite with both readers and writers. The Devil is distinctly a Christian character. The Greeks, the Romans, and the Oriental nations, all had conceptions of spirits of evil of one kind or another, but all quite distinct from the Devil. The Old Testament contains a character very slightly sketched, which Christians have generally identified with the Devil. But the spirit of evil who tempted...