Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...genius of these men was unlike, and they differed widely in character as well as education, but there is a certain kinship in the spirit that underlies the pathetic ballads of the one and the great tone-poems of the other. It is the spirit of love and humor, the intense humanity, the irrepressible sympathy with all living things that has brought them so near to the heart of the world. Both were poet-singers, both were clear, simple, tender, natural, and true...
Among some of the shorter contributions, is a clever, artistic story, full of humor and quiet pathos, called "Only an Incident," also a well-written study of impressionism in words by Alfred D. F. Hamlin, entitled "Pen Pictures of the Bosphorus...
...diction is fairly exact - although there are several marked errors. For instance, a man doesn't "use swear-words", he "swears" or he "cusses." And we wonder, also, when a "girl's deep blue eye twinkles with humor," what she does with the other. Possibly she winks it! The whole thing is a marionette show in which the principal puppets are manipulated in an unskillful manner. The author of the story has shown himself capable of far better work...
...Crane will entertain the patrons of the Hollis Street Theatre for two weeks more as "The Senator." The dash and humor of this delightful comedy make it a play which is, in the language of the inner Thespian brotherhood, "a house-filler...
...Hawthorne in its general simplicity and in certain descriptive touches. The plot of the story is slender and not particularly original, but the author counterbalances this by some truly excellent bits of description and character delineation. The old village doctor of Milford stands vividly before us, and the quiet humor of the first part stands in striking antithesis to the deep patnos of the latter part of the tale...