Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Henry James Sr., father of the novelist and of Prof. William James, is dead...
...that set of men that come to college to study and to learn. It is true that their lives afford less material for a romance than do the adventures of wealthy men's sons and the prowess of boating men, but there is still a field for some novelist who wishes to describe college life in the doings of this other set. There is a set of earnest, sincere, although plodding men who have come here for business; who do not play poker and go to the theatre and other resorts every night, and spend their mornings in bed, complacently...
Robert Brough, a son of the late novelist and dramatist of that name, is attracting attention on the English stage...
Berthold Auerbach, the noted German novelist, recently died in Cannes, France. He was of Jewish birth. He wrote several semi-historical works in his younger years and translated "Spinoza" into German, besides writing a biography of that philosopher. But his novels gained him his chief fame. He was always a zealous advocate of the cause of education...
...lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called for charity, though not for cash, and that, at any rate, he had shown up Thackeray to the world; whereupon Mr. F-lds called upon his lordship to retract the insult to that great novelist, saying that to slander his (F.'s) friend was to slander him (F.). The discussion was finally ended by the chairman's remarking that he wanted the money for building an L to the Concord school; and then he called upon the Sage of that place to explain the object...