Word: helmer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...proof of a power of analysis possessed by few and of an ability to make details and accessories contribute to the general tone of the story which gives it, in spite of its melancholy, a strange charm. The story has many points of resemblance with the "Decadence of Arthur Helmer" by the same writer in one of the last year's Advocates. It is fully equal to it, if it is not better...
...Advocate of June 19 contains the best piece of writing that has appeared in its columns for a number of months. "The Decadence of Mr. Arthur Helmer," though it can appeal to none but a Harvard man, is a vivid and accurate character study far more thorough than one generally finds in college writing. It is photographic in its accuracy, and the style, though plain, is incisive at every stage...