Word: mentioning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...children cannot fail to find it - as doubly great. The stories are of somewhat unequal merit, but are all good. The natural fault, that of a want of naturalness and simplicity, is rarely met with. "Santa Claus' Deer," "Bertie's Dream," and "Rose Bud's Story," deserve particular mention. The second of these leaves nothing to be wished for in the way of simple and beautiful description, besides conveying the best of morals in a most attractive garb. "Santa Claus' Deer" is a happy thought, well worked up; while "Rose Bud's Story" inculcates an important doctrine of physics...
...Englishman of moderate means has one great advantage over the American, - he can buy good books of the best authors at a reasonable price. There are hundreds of entertaining and instructive shilling books, not to mention the respectable library one could collect at the rate of sixpence a volume. The leading publishing houses issue at times "libraries," as they call them, of famous authors, in paper covers, it is true, but printed on fair paper and in good type; these "libraries," comprising history, science, and fiction, furnish good reading at prices within the reach of every one who wants...
...require fifteen hours, even if so many could be taken, for few indeed would care to devote themselves so exclusively to an ornamental branch of knowledge. The proposed step is calculated to awaken a lively interest in the study, and to give some recognition of the work by mention in the Catalogue...
...innate, and exposes the fallacy of believing any to be derived from sensation or reflection. Here, as well as elsewhere in his book, he is in strict harmony with Descartes. In fact, he seems to have written to simplify and explain his great master; and though we find nowhere mention of Descartes, we cannot doubt the admiration and assent implied in every paragraph. He is then a Descartes made easy, - a Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable. In the simplicity and Saxon character of his phraseology he forcibly reminds us of our own humorist, Petroleum V. Nasby...
...brilliant plays. The ground was execrable, and the infielders waited for the ball with but little hope of judging it correctly. Every man, with the exception of the outfielders, who did not have the opportunity, tried his hand at muffing with marked success. Hooper's pitching, as usual, deserves mention, and Tyng's line catch was one unsurpassed in the records of professional playing. The umpire's decisions were, with one or two exceptions, entirely satisfactory. Our Nine came to the conclusion that it is next to impossible to win a game from the Rollstones on their own grounds...