Word: humors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...appears in the Monthly; it flows on smoothly enough and seems to have a good deal of meaning, which, however, on close analysis dwindles to very little. As a whole, this number, entirely creditable from a technical point of view, is too serious; there is a lack of the humor, which covers a multitude of literary sins...
...graduated from Harvard with the class of '83, returned to Kentucky, and after a few years settled in the mountains, where he has since lived. Thus he has discovered a new field in fiction and has made excellent use of it. The stories in dialect are mostly humorous. The humor is not insistent, and the reader is flattered by having much left to his intelligence. The same may be said of the narration in the other stories. These are told with a simplicity and directness suggestive of Kipling. This is more especially true of "Through the Gap." The last...
...first of the series of readings and lectures to be given by the Cantabrigia Club for the benefit of the Radcliffe Scholarship fund was held last night in Sanders Theatre. The audience though large showed an almost ludicrous want of humor, preferring to read sentiment and pathos into Mr. Hawkins's selections, rather than to laugh at the delicate and delightful wit which makes them so charming. Even two selections from the "Dolly Dialogues" did not quicken the audience entirely. This was the more strange considering that Mr. Hawkins read well and that all but one of his selections were...
...illustrations are on the whole creditable, and the written contributions have, to an unusual degree, caught the spirit of genuine humor. The take-off on Richard Harding Davis' latest story in Scribner's is especially successful in this respect...
...Humor in Debating, R. S. Holland...