Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...writing. He later handled more numerous characters, surrounded by more complicated circumstances. In this class of his writings he introduces together with realistic detail, a type which is brought out and emphasized by his skill in individualizing character. "A Modern Instance" is an example of this style of novel and although furiously attacked for the grim and sordid tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them live and move in the sordid environment of a third...
...extent, the study of education was viewed in the same way. It was thought that the only education necessary for a teacher was a thorough training in his subject and some slight professional training in a normal school. That every one should study the art of education is a novel idea. But it is certainly necessary that every one should understand the training of children and the best ways of teaching them. This, people are ready to grant, but still cannot realize that instruction is needed. But it is something too complex for self instruction and instruction is so much...
...Feminology" is based on rather a novel conception, and would be interesting if only the idea were better worked up. The number also contains an amusing dialect story of "Henry Clay's Conversion," by J. P. Warren...
...articles deserve more notice than it is possible to give them here. The "Paper" Sport is as good a "Harvard Type" as the Advocate has yet introduced; and the "Law Breaker," which follows, contains some uncommonly vivid word painting. Its author, Philip Richards, gives an excellent description of the novel feelings which the hero experiences on his first introduction to a gambling hell. In marked contrast are "Merely Players," and "Applied Science," the articles already indefinitely referred to as lacking in originality...
...summer school of physical training at the gymnasium will begin June 26, two days before commencement. This year's curriculum will have several decidedly novel features in addition to the courses pursued in former years. More advanced work will be taught in response to a demand from graduates and the growing requirements of the science...