Word: isabel
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ordained a minister of the Scotch Church and became an active supporter of Dr. Chalmers in the establishment of the Free Church. He married Miss Isabel Guthrie, a niece of Dr. Thomas Guthrie, the distinguished Edinburgh clergyman. In 1851 he was appointed professor of logic at Queen's College, Belfast. There he remained till he was called to be president of Princeton College in 1866. He resigned that office in 1888, and thereafter lived in comparative retirement. His death had been expected for some time as he failed rapidly within the last few months...
...obscurity. She is followed by the new owner of her home, who wins her without disclosing his identity. The heroine is enacted by Viola Allen, and the hero by Henry Miller. Other members of the organization are Mr. W. Faversham, Robert Edeson, W. H. Crompton, W. H. Thompson, Miss Isabel Irving and Miss May Robson...
...CENTURY.The leader is an article on Repin, the greatest of, Russian painters, by Isabel Hapgood. Then follows the first installment of the widely advertised new story by Mrs. Burton Harrison, author of the "Anglomaniacs." It is illustrated by C. Dana Gibson and he has never done better work than in the scene at the opera house. It seems as if book-illustration has no room for improvement, such is the excellence of this work...
...Miss Isabel F. Hapgood has translated a large number of Tolsto's books and it is, perhaps, natural that, seeing "Count Tolstoy at Home," she should make this the title and subject of a paper in the November Atlantic, which is one of the features of the number. Miss Hapgood, although admiring his great gifts, is not a blind adherent of his changeable philosophies. Her sketch is therefore clever and trenchant and it must be read if one would understand Tolstoy better than perhaps he understands himself. It is a useful bit of information for the layman that the name...
...verse of the number, "An awakening" is the best, although it lacks any great originality, and the first line naturally suggests the opening verse of one of Wordsworth's best known poems. "To Isabel" is more replete with words than with thought. "In Exile" is a pleasureable triolet...