Word: life
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story entitled the "Southern Cross" is a picture of Indian life on the island of Grand Menan. The plot of the story is good; the development, however, lacks true literary feeling. Here and there are delicate touches of description, yet the story as a whole moves too slowly for its subject. The language is diffuse and the treatment shows lack of experience. There are also at times obscurities of description which mar the effect...
...article in an entirely different vein is "An August Dream." This is a pleasant story of summer life at Lake George and despite the fact that it sometimes drops into a little over sentimentality, it leaves a feeling of charm with the reader. To one who has spent a summer at Lake George, the story brings back pleasant recollections...
...England whose people would not gladly give the land, with perpetual exemption from taxation, if Harvard University would transfer itself within their borders. Harvard certainly contributes vastly more to the city in merely material prosperity than is sacrificed by exemption from taxation. And in quickening the intellectual life of the city, in bringing its people into contact with great thinkers and scientists and preachers, in opening freely to the use of all the treasure houses of learning, the University is doing a service that deserves the most cordial appreciation...
...them the right thing at the right time. It is a peculiarity, he thinks, of the nervous organization. Training perfects the action of this impulse. Mr. Dudley further attempts to prove that the mental training of the athlete is peculiarly fitted for training the student for the business of life, but we think that he is attributing to it something which it has no claim to except in common with every other exercise of the mind which calls for decision and prompt action...
...Maestro's Virgin" is the narration of an incident in the life of Perugino. It is charmingly told, and the article shows great care...