Word: ian
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...articles are invaluable. The illustrations have been chosen with rare taste; they are interesting as pictures, and as examples of the artists, who are critically and biographically presented in the text. The fiction is especially notable, including a charming romance by Anthony Hope, a pathetic and powerful story by Ian Maclaren, and a characteristic tale from the unpublished manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson, half fairy story and half fable...
...seats in Sever 11 were again taken on the occasion of Mr. Copeland's lecture last evening on Stevenson, Mr. Barrie, Mr. Crocket, and "Ian Maclaren." The lecture began with a brief comparison of the contemporary Scottish renaissance, with past triumphs,- much greater past triumphs,- of the northern kingdom over the English public...
...their farm or neighborhood sketches and stories that Mr. Barrie, Mr. Crocket, and "Ian Maclaren" may be most independently and most fairly judged. "The Stickit Minister," Mr. Crocket's best achievement in this kind, has a good deal of humor, pathos, and homespun truth; but the author forces the pathetic note and often disfigures his best opportunities with the written equivalents for "make-up," graduated foot-lights and slow music. The other two writers are more simply faithful to human nature. Mr. Barrie's humor is richer than Maclaren's and poor Jess's window in "A Window in Thrums...
...subject announced for tonight is: Stevenson, Mr. Barrie, "Ian Maclaren," and Mr. Crockett...
Lecture. Stevenson, Mr. Barrie, "Ian Maclaren," and Mr. Crockett. Mr. Copeland. Sever...