Word: lover
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Night, although not always smooth and musical, show much purity and simplicity, and their genuineness more than atones for any lack of polish. Mr. F. S. Palmer's verses in his Ode to Herrick, are more musical and better tuned. They cannot fail to stir a genuine lover of Herrick. Mr. A. B. Houghton's Ballad of Pleasure Seekers, though far above the average of college verse, is not, we think, quite up to the standard of his former work, in spite of a number of lines more than ordinarily good. It is likely that many will object...
...expected to do as well as the team which has heretofore represented Dartmouth. From a selfish point of view we have reason to regard this change with favor, but the regret at losing the old and well-known club will over-balance, in the mind of every fair minded lover of base-ball, any momentary impulse of joy which may spring up at the thought of our increased chances for a victorious season...
...Englishmen should leave literary work which specially belongs to them to be done by Germans and Americans. And now we have the only fit edition of our best English and Scotch ballads by an American, too, - the well known Chaucer scholar, Professor F. J. Child of Harvard. The ballad lover confesses gladly that no one else has done such admirable work at our old popular ballads as Professor Child is doing has done. The book is an honor to its editor, and America. It ought to find its way into every real English library, and it will prove a mine...
...LOVER OF GRASS...
...stories. Dr. Holmes turns over some new leaves in his delightful "New Portfolio," and the articles on "Madame Mohl and her Salon" are completed. The short papers are John S. Dwight's article on "Bach: 1685-1885;" "The Misused H of England," "Children in Early Christianity," and "A Bird-Lover's April." There are several back reviews and some excellent poetry. The usual Contributors' Club and Books of the Month close the number...