Word: out-of-the-way
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...Whitelock '13 is the author of a new volume of travel, "Brittany With Bergere," published by R. G. Badger and on sale at the Co-operative. In this book of some hundred and fifty pages, the author gives a highly entertaining account of a journey through out-of-the-way spots of Brittany with a small cart and horse. In the score of interesting old towns which he visited, Mr. Whitelock has shown a keen interest in the people and their ways of life. Professor Copeland, to whom the book is dedicated, says, in a letter to the author, "Many...
...kind, brisk, exciting, entertaining. These excellent qualities are not found in the stories of the Monthly, Mr. Adams's "Beyond the Gate," Mr. Bellows's "Brother and Sister," and Mr. Carbs's "Reveilles." Mr. Moon's "In the Track of the Turk" shows experience in an out-of-the-way corner of the world; it could have been made more tense...
...whom we know to be responsible; no office notices will be published unless signed by one of the college officers. This plan has obvious advantages over the old scheme of putting all the notices under one head. Often times notices have lost their point by insertion in out-of-the-way places. We hope to make this column an official medium for the conduct of affairs between the college authorities and the students...
...January number of the Century is very strong in papers of out-of-the-way adventure or travel told from personal experience. One of them is the concluding paper of Mrs. Pennell's Account of her adventures among the Austrian gispsies, another is Miss Alice C. Fletcher's "Personal Studies of Indian Life" setting forth the "Politics and Pipe-Dancing" of the tribe of Omaha Indians, and a third is two papers on "The Great Wall of China" giving good pictures in text and illustration of that wonderful wall. Miss Elizabeth Stuart Phelps has an interesting article on Whittier, with...
...Lawyer's Story" is a reminiscence of certain out-of-the-way events in which a notorious highwayman forms the central figure. There is a lack of unity about the whole and the climax is weak. With the events which the author describes, the plot should be much stronger than...