Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unadvised. Modern art where it treats life demands realism and we contend that realism only ceases to be real art when the emotion it excites are such as we afterwards regret as having relaxed our moral fibre. Judging "Kid" in this most serious way we cannot find that any one's imagination would receive injury from its perusal...
...modern theories of the galvanic cells...
Graduate Club. Some Questionable Features of Modern Democracy. Professor Norton. Colonial Club House...
...though each had her griefs, yet they had what we in this time should call extraordinary joy. They were also alike in being good, and they were all "bathed in an ideal light." They were not only idealized but ideal. In this they differ from all heroines of our modern literature, unless it be Lorna Doone...
...excellent actress of Shakspere. Through her, if through any one his characters shone without personal whims or affectations. Yet she was hardly careful enough to bring out Rosalind's mirthful character. The Rosalinds since Nilson have had conspicuous faults. Modjeska's acting of the part was too modern and hysterical; Miss Davenport's Rosalind lacked poetry. Ada Rehan is the best actress of this character since Nilson, but even she is a bright, sweet, interesting Rosalind and no more. Though fault can be found with these actresses, however, there are few of us who could not gain by seeing their...