Word: mannered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lamb, contributes the second paper of her series on the significance and present condition of "Historic Homes and Landmarks." The numerous points of interest about Bowling Green in New York City are well described and their connection with the history of the city is told in a charming manner. The article is illustrated with many pictures, some of the places as they are now and others copied from old prints, as they have been in the past. "America, the World's Puzzle in Geography," by Rev. William Barrows, D. D., is of especial interest only to students of American history...
...Some Colonial Lawyers and their Work." Treating in more recent events is an article entitled "Personal Reminisences of William H. Seward," by his private secretary, Samuel J. Barrows, and his wife, Isabel C. Barrows. The article consists of a number of reminiscences told of a very interesting manner. Light fiction is represented by Elizabeth Bellamy with the first part of a Negro story called "Hannah Callmis Jin." There are also two thoughtful essays, the first on "Simplicity," by Charles Dudley Warner, and the second, on "The Isthmus Canal and our Government," by Stuart F. Weld...
...unlike anything ever before attempted by a municipality. The plan is intended for the benefit of the working men, at whose command it will place the means for the improvement, development and exercise of the physical man. The whole plan is experimental, and its continuance will depend upon the manner in which the public takes to the idea...
...Darling. As guest, Mr. Lioyd McKim Garrison, L. S., a former president of the CRIMSON, was present. The dinner. which is always held about this time of the year, is in honor of the resigning board, and last night's dinner brought honor to '89 for the able manner in which she conducted the paper during her term of office...
...Ghastly Journey." Mr. Post has treated an old idea in a new and realistic way. The story is told in a natural and effective manner, and is so skillfully managed that the fact that the writer has been hoaxed does not dawn upon the reader until the end is reached. The enjoyment of the whole is heightened by the skillful way in which the denouement is managed Under Topics of the Day is "Another's Study in Happiness." It is thoroughly ideal, and, to us, somewhat unsatisfactory. The short sketch, "In the Train," by R. W. Atkinson...