Word: mist
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...poetry is not strikingly good. "The Tale of the Stolen Squad" displays easy mastery of narrative verse and must have been fun to write. "Sea-Mist" is poetic--in part, at least--but only intermittently skilful in versification. It commits the indiscretion of beginning its first stanza with a verse that suggests a different metre from what is coming. The conception of "Sonoratown" is better than the execution, which is metrically uncomfortable. The sonnet "On the First Movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony" is able writing, but not clear. "On a Sundial" is a pleasing but unsatisfying epigrammatic quatrain...
...Monthly, which appears today, contains the following articles: "Is the Interchange of Professors with Germany a Success?," by Professor Kuno Francke; "Arlin, the Thief," by H. A. Bellows '06; "Sonoratown," by W. H. Wright sC.; "The Poetry of Edward Rowland Sill," by H. E. Cory 1G.; "Sea-Mist," by J. H. Wheelock '08; "The Travel Papers of Arminius, III--Concerning a Paradise or Two;" "When Granada Came to Almeria," by R. Altrocchi '08; "On a Sundial," by C. H. Dickerman '07; "The Tale of the Holen Squad," by H. Hagedorn, Jr., '07; "The Vision of Fulfilled Desire...
...college fiction, the value of which is very doubtful. It tells its story so allusively that it must remain elusive for most readers. When, too, the end is reached, the real content of the story seems so slight that one wonders why one should try to penetrate the mist of allusion thrown around it. "Sketchy" is the word that comes inevitably to mind as one reads these stories, even though there be in them good characterization and some telling phrase. Good touches like this in "A Committee of Three" are frequent. The writer says of a three cornered conversation...
...election will squarely test the capacity of the people of New York to appreciate the benefits of a clean, efficient and disinterested administration. The blessings of good government are felt indeed by the poorest and most ignorant of the population; but to many they may be obscured by the mist of some private grievance, or by the misleading appeals of politicans to party loyalty. It is the educated man who can best estimate the good which has resulted from two years of patient unremitting toil in the behalf of the city, under circumstances of almost insuperable difficulty...
Burnt through the mist that shrouds the wildering scene...