Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sentence; indeed, with the exception of his "Catullus" of last year, we do not remember any critical article of his that is better He tells us among other things that by an intricate method of skipping, the "Bharata" may be read in ninety days; what exercise for a novelist! And yet he seems at home in this sea of words and dallies with its pollysyllabic names. The whole epic is compressed into a dozen pages; the fewer the better fare.' A somewhat weak poem in a some what far fetched metre is contributed by Mr. Sanford, and next follows...
...Book Reviews there is a pains-taking review of "The Feud of Oakfield Creek" by Dr. Royce. The philosopher, historian, and novelist is now informed that he might be an eminent playwright. The review is careful and well weighed, but hardly satisfactory. An editorial and other book notices complete the number...
...George Riddle, '74, the well-known elocutionist, has gone upon the stage again, and is playing this week at the Hollis Street Theatre in the "Earl," a tragedy in blank verse by Mr. Edgar Fawcett, the New York poet and novelist...
President McCosh, of Princeton College, and George W. Cable, the well-known novelist, have recently joined the prohibition party...
...think, almost altogether a graft from French stock, such writings as Zola's "Contes a Nanon," Guyde Maupassant's somewhat vile anecdotes, and Balzac's "Contes Drolatiques" being its progenitors. And as of the short stories, so of the novels. Balzac seems to me the first novelist who could dissect a woman. Defoe tried to analyze a woman of the lower grade in Roxana, and Peregrine Pickle is such another monument of failure. But it was Balzac who first traversed this dark - or should I say fair - continent...