Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which is unknown. There is an early Italian Madonna of the Fifteenth Century, and another unidentified picture of the same period belonging to the Italian or Flemish school. In the collection of antiquities on the first floor of the Museum are two new objects, a vase, and a fragment of a head which are both by Greek artists. The prints of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and the collection of engravings and wood cuts by Albrecht Durer are still on exhibition...
...Fragment." Joseph W. Harts...
...lecturer next turned his attention to the prose writers, beginning with Gogol, the founder of the Russian naturalistic school. After an interesting and sarcastic sketch of the aristocratic tendencies of the time, the speaker gave a pathetic picture of Gogol's character, illustrating his literary physiognomy by a fine fragment from his "Dead Souls." The new elements brought into literature by Gogol can be expressed in one word: he was the first who made people feel ashamed of life. With Gogol, literature in Russia ceased to be a monopoly of the drawing room, and becomes the property of the nation...
...tale would seem to justify, but the remaining articles of the number are very satisfactory. Two hitherto unknown names appear as the authors of well written stories,-"A Summer Incident," by R. L. Raymond, and "The Exacting Story," by J. W. R., both comparing not unfavorably with the "Fragment of a Modern Tale," by J. Mack, Jr. "The Last Theme," by F. Johnston, is exaggerated, but its cleverness saves this from being objectionable...
...Antiquary. A Fragment," by George Griswold, 2d, is the longest poem in the number, and is decidedly telling. The blank verse is musical, and the succession of metaphors is very well sustained, - a difficult feat...