Word: novelist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...class of 1853 at Yale graduated the following distinguished men: Ex. President Andrew F. White of Cornell; Justice Shiras of the United States Supreme Court bench; G. W. Smalley and J. H. Bromely of the Tribune, Edmund Clarence Steadman, Wayne McVeagh, Theodore West, the novelist; Benjamin K. Phelps, ex-district attorney of New York County; Senator Gibson, and the late President G. H. Watson of the New Haven Railroad...
...Chaucer was a marked contrast. Langley was a novelist, Chaucer an artist. His nature was sunny and genial, he was satisfied to take things as they were, and try to describe not to better them. He was a man of facts; not only was he an eager student, and a prodigious reader, but an accomplished man of the world. He had the best education England afforded, he paid a visit to Italy, and shared in the active life of English politics...
...Marion Crawford, the novelist, gave a reading at St. Panl's School last Tuesday evening...
...story is published in this number, continuing the plan started with the "Rivals" in the November issue. "Le Reveillon" is admirably illustrated by George Roux; a contribution of especial interest is "Lord Bateman. A Ballad," with illustrations (hitherto unpublished) by W. M. Thackeray. A comment is written by the novelist's daughter, Mrs. Ritchie...
...course of the next ten years he published three volumes of poetry. Though the verses were well written and often of a religious turn of mind they did not meet with the success he had anticipated. He realized that he was intended more for a critic. As a novelist he was not fortunate, for his one novel, published in 1834, was not successful. He devoted considerable time to the study of Chataubrian and gave a remarkable series of lectures on him. His "Causeries de Lundi" are masterpieces of literary style, concise and finished...