Word: plot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very new and original manner. Portions of this socalled lost Play of Aeschylus are very clever and well written. The work is, however, very uneven in point of merit. The charge of the Archon Eponymous is by far the brightest and best written scene of the play. The plot lacks continuity and hence fails to some extent in its purpose...
...description are delicate, and the treatment is, in the main, original. The writer shows power of observation particularly in the character of May Vernon. One who is familiar with a country church and its ways will be keenly interested in the story of "The Reverend Ambrose Wilson." The plot is less worthy than the treatment, and were it not for an unsuspected turn at the end, would seem shallow. The ins and outs of country churches, however, must have been observed to have been so well portrayed. The essay on Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, though instructive, well...
...story entitled the "Southern Cross" is a picture of Indian life on the island of Grand Menan. The plot of the story is good; the development, however, lacks true literary feeling. Here and there are delicate touches of description, yet the story as a whole moves too slowly for its subject. The language is diffuse and the treatment shows lack of experience. There are also at times obscurities of description which mar the effect...
...water was used instead of vermilion paint. The freshmen did not regard the joke in so agreeable a light as the rest of the college did, particularly as the sophomores had made trouble at their class dinner, a short time before. Accordingly, by way of revenge, they formed a plot against the sophomore who had acted as judge at the trial of the three freshmen. They sent him a telegram, calling on him to meet a friend who was to reach Hanover on the midnight train. The sophomore unsuspiciously fell into the trap, and, while...
...Assemblies" of Al Hariri, selections from which were read last night by Mr. Jewett, although one of the greatest works of Arabic literature, are almost completely unknown to the western world. They are written in the most elegant Arabic and are often learnt by heart. The plot is simple throughout, as there are only two characters, a narrator and a clever adventurer, who passes his time in duping kindhearted people by pious speeches. The assemblies are so called because the events related took place before a number of people gathered together. The ninth one describes how the adventurer was brought...