Word: lucidities
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...essays on French and French plays and French lectures somewhat palls on one, and might be decidedly tiresome, were not at least one of these articles of exceptional merit. This one is "The Plays of M. Maurice Maeterlinck," by H. S. Pollard--an essay written in such a lucid style and marked by such a clear and sympathetic understanding of the subject as to be equally pleasant and valuable. "The Misdirected Vengeance of Bucknell," by S. A. Welldon, is a strong story, well worth reading; "Greer's Dam," by L. M. Crosbie, is stronger in plot than in treatment...
...Chief Justice, and to the wisdom of his decisions is due in great measure that prevalence of sound constitutional doctrine and opinion that has made the permanence of the Union possible. To this and all his work John Marshall brought "a great stateman's sagacity, a great lawyer's lucid exposition and persuasive reasoning, a great man's candor and breadth of view, and that judicial authority on the bench, allowed naturally and as of right, to a large sweet nature which all men loved and trusted...
...next volume in Macmillan's Series of Economic Classes will be a translation of Turgot's "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches" (1770), by the editor of the series, Professor W. J. Ashley, of Harvard. This book is a brief and lucid statement of the doctrines of those writers who are regarded the creators of modern political economy. Hitherto it has been accessible only in a translation of 1793 which has been discovered to be inaccurate...
Nothing can be better in its way than the style in which Goethe there presents his thought, but it is the style of prose as much as of poetry; it is lucid, harmonious, earnest, eloquent, but it has not received that peculiar kneading, heightening, and recasting which is observable in the style of the passage from Milton,- a style which seems to have for its cause a certain pressure of emotion, and an ever-surging, yet bridled, excitement in the poet, giving a special intensity to his way of delivering himself. In poetical races and epochs this turn for style...
...there is nothing less profitable than scholarship for the mere sake of scholarship, nor anything more wearisome in the attainment. But the moment you have a definite aim, attention is quickened, the mother of memory, and all that you acquire groups and arranges itself in an order that is lucid, because everywhere and always it is in intelligent relation to a central object of constant and growing interest. This method forces upon us the necessity of thinking, which is, after all, the highest result of all education. For what we want is not learning, but knowledge; that is, the power...