Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this week only there will be a new and novel entertainment at the Columbia Theatre. Lottie Collins's Troubadours, directed by Cooney and Harris, and Lottie Collins herself in her new creation the "Devilbird...
...tfFOR this week only there will be a new and novel entertainment at the Columbia Theatre. Lottie Collins's Troubadours, directed by Cooney and Harris, and Lottie Collins herself in her new creation the "Devilbird...
...simply that they were used to better society and have the air of the great world, of the world, that is, which makes fashions and is not made by them. They opened their Homer, their Sophocles, their Tacitus, their Horace, where we take up our newspaper or our novel. What an old Gascon prig would Montaigne have been but for the ancients, especially Plutarch. Yet his library did not swamp him, and though his essays are pockmarked all over with quotations, his temper is essentially modern, indeed, he is the first of the properly modern writers...
...novel Arctic expedition is to be undertaken this summer by a party of college men under the direction of Dr. F. A. Cook, ethnologist of the Peary expedition. The number will be selected from the leading universities of the country and will include representatives from Harvard, Yale, University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan...
...Goethe wish the novel of Wilhelm Meister to be a picture of life about him, or an ideal study of character...