Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prince "A Transatlantic Chatelaine," (Houghton, Mifflin and Co.) is hardly as good, considered as a story, as "Christine Rochefort," her first attempt, but as a picture of modern French society it is extremely interesting. An intensely Puritanical New England girl, left a rich widow, marries a French nobleman, chiefly for his title and later discovers that he is more or less of a blackguard. Some incidents of the Franco-Prussian war are woven into the plot in an interesting way, although there is no actual fighting. The characters are not as clearly drawn as some in her earlier works, being...
...such, for example, as the ones on American women, art, music, and newspapers. His point of view is that of the conventional French visitor who considers American men as mere money-making machines, and who thinks that the ambition of every American girl is to marry a foreign nobleman. He has been told many marvellous tales about our life which he has immediately written down as true...
...orbils were not correct. With the revival of learning in the middle ages came a renewed attention to the investigation of astronomy. Copernicus, Tycho and Kepler were the foremost students. Copernicus renewed the rejected idea that the sun was the centre of the system of planets. Tycho, a rich nobleman in Denmark, established the first observatory. Kepler investigated he careful observations and deduced the fact that the planets moved in ellipses; he established "Kepler's Laws...
...Boniface as Daniel Dowlas scored a success. He rendered the part of the tallow chandler become nobleman with spirit. Mr. E. L. Davenport as Dick Dowlas also deserves mention. Mr. Charles Barron did the best he could with the rustic sickly sentiment with which his role was loaded...