Word: paragraphic
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...treated of course only in its elements in a volume as small as this, but Professor Hart has treated the subject in an interesting as well as an instructive manner. The various subjects of each chapter are printed in the margin at the beginning of their paragraph so that it is easy to find at a glance any special topic. Each chapter moreover, is prefixed by a large number of references carefully selected and arranged. There are five good maps showing the condition of the country from the year 1750 to 1829. Professor Hart has arranged the chief events...
...Lewis E. Gates has an article on the "Romantic Elements in Lord Tennyson's Poetry." The conclusions arrived at are summed up in the following paragraph...
...editorial is quite to the point. Its sentiment is one which we believe the whole University can sympathize with. One paragraph is well worth quoting...
...fiction of the number as a whole is best characterized, to quote Professor Wendell, as 'well-meaning and thoroughly amiable rot.' Under this classification, the first of the 'Two Sketches' is preeminent. The second is not bad, until one comes to the last paragraph. Up to this point there is a change of its being good but the effect is entirely thrown away out of the hasty and unartistic ending. The same fault is to be found with, 'A Disgrace to His Profession'; the last sentence is too tame but the rest of the story is good. The mucker-talk...
About "Bob's Particular Friend, Miss Shepard" we are rather at loss what to say. The story seemed interesting enough as it progressed, and parts of it, - the paragraph describing the "tea," for instance, were delightfully descriptive, yet the general impression left by the story was unsatisfactory. The trouble seems to be that the style is a little incoherent; one is not always sure what the writer is trying to express, so that the sequence of thought is not every where apparent...