Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Fifty Years." The last fifty years comprise two marked literary periods; the epoch of Realism in France and the flourishing Victorian era in England. Meanwhile the development of letters in America has been thorough. The characteristic of the three literatures during this time has been the reign of the novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism, and Imaginative Writing. The last subdivides into Drama, Poetry and Fiction. In all these branches, Realism, which in France began about 1840 as a revulsion from the violent romantic outburst which preceded...
...other courses, offered as by far the larger part of the new instruction, embody another novel and important feature. This is an effort to bring about the co-operation of a large number of specialists, of the grade of university professors, in the giving of instruction concerning the best methods of elementary teaching in their own departments. How this end will be accomplished, the fuller announcement soon to be published will show better than can yet be done. As a rule, in each of the topics above mentioned, a course of lectures, by instructors belonging to the department in question...
...idea of a dream being "cherished" in the "bosom" is somewhat novel, but then, the Spectator is a humorous publication...
...International Journal of Ethics is of particular interest to Harvard students of philosophy from the fact that it contains a long review by one of our professors, Josiah Royce, of a recent important publication by another professor, William James. Professor Royce commends the "Principles of Psychology" for its novel suggestions, its new outlook upon psychology, its wide range of comparative study and the help which it gives one towards desired many-sidedness of insight. He characterizes the method of the book as a curiously intermediate one among the various possible views as to the nature of the mind, standing half...
...orchestra, besides the overtures, were, Andantino and Scherzo from Symphony in Friminor by Tschaikowsky, and Symphony in B flat by Schumann. The Andantino of the Tschaikowsky Symphony is somewhat dry and contrapuntal, but the Scherzo, besides being exceedingly musical, is a really wonderful study in orchestration, with its novel pizzicato effect and its contrasts of tone-color between strings and wind...