Word: orly
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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DEAR MAGENTA, - I regret having been compelled to leave so long unnoticed a recent contribution to the Advocate commenting on, or rather criticising, my article on Bulwer. This would-be critic opens with, and again repeats, an opinion that my ideas are wholly erroneous concerning two, at least, of Bulwer...
No one can be a greater admirer than myself of Bulwer's writings, and I consider "Eugene Aram" at least one of his average productions. Still, I see no reason to correct a former opinion expressed concerning a story, a great part of which is occupied in narrating the events...
The Advocate's correspondent would have obliged me much more had he desisted from a criticism of my view of what is at best an open question, and had he corrected a mistake which I must beg permission to do myself. I relied on an imperfect memory when I stated...
THE Yale Lit. for April has been received. In accordance with its custom of publishing in every number a love or ghost story, it furnishes this time one of the former class, "That Freshman," better than the average which are published in its columns, although open to much censure. The...
The heroine of this story and these two men, Freshman and Senior, meet while camping out in the Adirondacks. There is always, of course, more or less difficulty for the novelist to find a suitable time for his hero to declare his passion for his heroine. Hughes, however, did a...