Word: novels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Last evening in Sever 11 Mr. Copeland began his course on the English Novelists with a very interesting lecture on Samuel Richardson. Mr. Copeland compared Richardson to Fielding and pointed out that though neither of them could be considered as the beginner of the English novel, the credit of the new opening in literature was due to both of them. He spoke of three methods of writing a novel, the divine method, the reminiscent, and the letter writing method, and showed how Richardson had tried to combine the first two in the last, and how he had failed to make...
...March 2 and Friday, March 4, instead of on March 1 and March 2, as at first announced. These two will be followed by four or six more lectures on Mondays and Fridays in March. The lectures will be on the different literary aspects of French Romanticism,- poetry, the novel, the drama, history, criticism, etc., and are to be given in Sanders Theatre in the evening...
...three main stories, "Sophomores Three" is easily the most readable. It has quaintness and charm, qualities not often found in college periodicals. "A Money-making Scheme" is a novel incident amusingly described with a good deal of college atmosphere. The author of "An Indiana Pioneer" evidently knows his ground thoroughly and has covered it well...
...first lecturer is to be M. Rene Doumic, the literary critic of the "Revue des Deux Mondes," who will give a series of eight lectures during the month of March on the different literary aspects of French Romanticism,- poetry, the novel, the drama, history, criticism...
...ignorance of the signals, several times blocked his own backs in the interference. He tackled well, however. Richardson's lightness prevented him from downing the heavy Pennsylvania backs without being dragged several yards before they were stopped. Moulton played as well as could have been expected considering Pennsylvania's novel system of blocking the ends. Parker got started badly at times but showed excellent form in his running when once he got started...