Word: manner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been less successful in the tales entitled "Fellow Travellers," "Interlopers at the Knap," and in others that might be named, than would have been expected from a writer of his imagination and other rich gifts. Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Walford, and even Mrs. Gaskill have written stories after the manner of the novel-chapter already referred to, and only Mr. Kipling, an Anglo-Indian, and Stevenson, a Scotchman, among contemporary British writers have had uniform artistic success in this sort of work. Guy de Maupassant is the master of contemporary French authors in the conte...
...Senators should represent the states in such manner as their own constitutions distribute power, (Forum, Nov., '94, 277).- (1) The different districts should have equal voice.- (2) The expression of the popular will is thus made more deliberate.- (3) The corporate representation of states is especially needed now.- (1) The national government tends to overbalance the state governments...
...University," it says, "when there is any reform called for in our elective pamphlet, in the arrangements of the gymnasium or the library, or even in the condition of the walks in the yard, we students do not attack the matter in a business-like or compelling manner. A generation ago when the graduates wanted anything, they made themselves heard on the matter and advanced their demands in a body in the form of petitions, which were usually granted. The condition of our (mud) walks we declare abominable and possible of easy cure; the courses in English literature...
Macmillan and Co. have in press a volume of "Studies in Judaism," by Mr. S. Shechter, Reader in Rabbinic in the University of Cambridge, which deal in a scholarly manner with many somewhat obscure topics in connection with the Jewish faith...
...missionary societies are not conducted in a business-like manner.- (a) Their accounts are vague and unsatisfactory.- (b) The great number of clerks and secretaries are costly and dispensable: Canon Taylor, Missionary Finance, Fortnightly Review...