Word: novels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Uutil very recently it has been though that Defoe was the father of the modern realistic novel. Dr., Ernest Bernbaum '02, in his work on "The Mary Carleton Narratives," has suggested a new source of English realism in the seventeenth century police court biographies. Mary Carleton, a once famous adventuress, has been the subject of many biographies, which give not only a picture of the charlatinism of the period, but a clue to a numerous series of plagiarisms...
...English literature, Dr. Bernbaum has made an important contribution in "The Mary Carleton Narratives 1663-1673,--A Missing Chapter in the History of the English Novel." This intrinsically interesting book is significant since it shows that even in the Restoration Period the art of realistic fiction was practiced. Hitherto the narratives were thought to be biographical instead of fictional. The Press also announces a translation by G. W. Robinson, Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, of "Eugippius: The Life of Saint Severinus," a document of the history and life of the Fifth Century, for the first time...
...Harvard of Today," the booklet of the Harvard Federation of Territorial Clubs, put on sale yesterday, is designed primarily to give prospective students an idea of the University. It is an entirely novel undertaking and the publication has been somewhat delayed because of the difficulty of inaugurating a new work of this kind...
...three plays are exceptional in their workmanship, move briskly and reasonably to their appointed climaxes, and present novel situations in an original treatment...
President Lowell avoided discussion of the technical points of the combination, confining himself to an exposition of the broader principles involved, and to answering common questions. He pointed out that the project was far from novel, tracing its history from the initial attempt, 43 years ago, and on through the failure of subsequent efforts to the successful culmination of the late plan. Of the various phases of the union, President Lowell spoke, in the main, on the way in which the two faculties will be involved. In short, the faculty of the combination will be a "Technology faculty re-inforced...