Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...invitation team race between the Springfield Bicycle Club and the Press Cycle Club of Boston, proved a novel and exciting race. The former's team was made up of Taylor, Tyler and Graves who battled with Berlo, McDuffee and Martin. First counted six points, second, five, and so on. McDuffee set the pace for two laps, then Berlo took the lead with Taylor closely following. The order was changed at the tape by Taylor's final effort. The Press cyclers won by a score of 11 to 9. The finishing order was as follows: 1, Taylor; 2, Berlo; 3, McDuffee...
...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...
Sainte-Beuve accomplished a great amount of work, many poems, a novel, literary portraits and essays. In his poems he sometimes lacks breadth and opinion, and often they have too much of a prose quality. As a historian he showed considerable power in his Porte Royale, an article on the religious movement of the seventeenth century. But he was first and last a critic. With him the writer was regarded as an individual, and he thought the first duty of the critic was to know him. It was an excellent method, but it was one apt to give, instead...
...ethical factors count for more than in France, and today the great thing in England is the social revolution through which she is going. The most important work of the younger men has been done in criticism and poetry, though there has been some striking work in the novel and drama, as with Kipling, Miss Shreiner, George Moore and others...
...novel it is not needful to say much here. It has its place; relaxation is necessary. Paradise lost and paradise regained makes up the story of human life. Begin your course of reading with what is interesting and in this way you will gain a taste for literature which will be invaluable...