Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...place in the ideal letter. It should also, if may be, contain an incident; and it should be composed with an exquisite union of correctness and ease. The letters of the poet Cowper are, on the whole, the best in the language, and Fitzgerald's often approach these in merit...
Professor Norton last night addressed the members of the Camera Club and contributors to the exhibition. He spoke briefly of the qualities which a photograph should have to excel artistically, and besides artistic merit, of the poetic feeling which should enter into the composition of such a photograph. He commended the practice of photography as cultivating the artistic sense, although it be not so disciplinary to hand and eye as the art of drawing. After pointing out various individual defects and merits, he complimented the contributors upon the general nature of the work exhibited...
After stating the difficulty of the task of choosing the best from among so many, Professor Norton decided that two views taken at Claymont, Delaware, by C. P. M. Rumford, excelled in point of artistic merit...
...eighth number of the Advocate for this year has just appeared. The number is entertaining throughout and contains several contributions of considerable merit. The contents of the number is as follows...
...Wednesday, sixth inst., Mrs. Tudor Hart, of Boston and London, will open an exhibition of very fine articles of artistic merit, mostly collected in the Old World...