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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Of the poetry of the number, "Verses," by P. H. Savage, is the best. It is simply written, and its metrical qualities are decidedly better than anything by the same author that we remember to have seen before. "The Amber-witch" is not up to Mr. Moody's usual standard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 3/14/1892 | See Source »

Of these four stories "Dross," and "The Prize that Teddy Won," are quite readable. In fact, "Dross" is fairly vigorous, strong, and decidedly well worked up, though one cannot help feeling that the allusion to the fact that "people in poor districts are not troubled with sensitive nostrils" is in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 3/7/1892 | See Source »

In Sever 11, this evening Mr. Montague Chamberlain will speak on "The Songbirds of New England." There seems to be a current impression that we have no song-birds worthy of notice in the United States and Mr. Chamberlain will devote himself to disproving this. He has made a careful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Chamberlain's Lecture. | 3/2/1892 | See Source »

The "Angel of The Adoration" is the title of the first piece of contributed writing. It purports to be a series of extracts from the writer's diary at Oberammergau during the passion play. By means of a series of daily entries the girl who played the angel of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 2/19/1892 | See Source »

Mr. Cummings' penchant for adjective titles is again noticeable in his essay called "Fanciful." There are in it the same elements of originality and incoherency which marked his last effort in the December Monthly, "Rational." On the whole, however, "Fanciful" leaves a pleasant impression on one.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Monthly. | 2/15/1892 | See Source »

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