Word: girls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...admitted to the bar. About this time he fell in love but he was doomed to bitter disappointment which made a deep impression on him, and lent to many of his works a peculiar shade of pensive melancholy. In 1797, however, he married a bright and pretty French girl, and he seems to have been happy with her. In 1796 he began to write. His works are naturally divided into two periods, the first from 1796 to 1814. the period of his poetry, the second from 1814 to 1832 in which he wrote all the Waverly novels...
...Ganschen von Buchenan" is a bright, attractive young girl, who lives with her grand parents, the Baron and Baroness von Buchenan. Von Fink, a dashing young man from the capital is visiting the family, in order to become acquainted with Agnes, the "Ganschen," whom his uncle wants him to marry. He would like to satisfy his uncle's demands, but he has heard from an acquaintance, a certain Silberling, that Agnes is a stupid uneducated girl, and has therefore made up his mind to appear so coarse and ill-bred himself, that the grandparents will send him home. On becoming...
...Study in Physiognomy" by William Loyd Widdemer is a good story and is very cleverly told. The idea is nothing new but it is in a pleasing form. It is the story of a man who pretends to fall in love with a girl merely that he may accuse her of a crime, that he has himself committed, with some semblance of sincerity...
...paper by Havelock Ellis, on "The Ancestry of Genius;" "Persian Poetry." by Sir Edward Strachey; and the extremely picturesque and pathetic sketch of the life of a Japanese dancing girl, written by Lafcadio Hearn, complete the more notable contents of the number. A paper on "Words," by Agnes Repplier, however, should not be forgotten by those who have enjoyed this clever woman's essays in past numbers of the magazine...
...promise of better things, - a promise which it is to be hoped will not prove to be delusive. It would be indeed a pity if the "old mother" should grow feeble before she fairly reaches her prime, and should forget that she had once been quite a good-looking girl...