Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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The Society of the Christian Brethren meets every Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock, at 24 C. H.
Kenelm Chillingly. His Adventures and Opinions. By E. L. BULWER (LORD LYTTON), author of "Pelham," "Last of the Barons," "The Caxtons." Harper & Brothers. 1873. New York.
THE last works of an author so prolific as Bulwer are often repetitions in part of former ones, and, even if they lose nothing in freshness and originality, they are likely to embody some fanciful theory or a leaning towards sentimentality in one form or another, - to be pervaded throughout...
Almost any great creation of fiction can be made out a type of something or other. Kenelm Chillingly would appear to be the type of culture; though, in adding this to an already great array, we are shamefully conscious of taking our very little share in that too hot pursuit...
To those who read novels merely to get at the plot, to find out how the hero fell into this scrape, and how he was helped out of that, and by what device the heroine is enabled to survive the agony she suffers or the crime she commits, - to all...