Word: plot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number opens with a short poem, the verse of which is much better than the subject. The first prose article, 'The Man Without a Name," is a highly interesting piece of writing, and the author does not hesitate to embody in the plot some startling details. The story threatens to border on the sensational, but its sudden and unexpected ending forbids such doubtful promise...
...Rhesos, King of Thrace," is a long story, the plot of which is laid far back in mythical times. It begins in a very attractive way, but its power to interest is seriously harmed by its length, and the ending is disappointing. A more dramatic close is needed...
...Story," by the same writer, is an article which embodies some startling ideas. It is a description of a Harvard's man's attempt to conjure up a suitable plot for a story. Whether he succeeds or not is left for the reader to judge. A human being with such a prolific imagination would have the making of a Rider Haggard. The story is very brightly and interestingly told and has the merit of singular originality...
...draws down in his ruin a noble but deluded woman, is in itself extraordinarily well done. But when we add to this the extraordinary turn which the narration takes in the course of the doctor's tale, in which we learn how the two victims of the infernal plot become also the victims of the theories of science and surgery, the imaginative faculty that evolved this story assumes very extraordinary proportions. This article is noticeable in more ways than this. The perfect balance between its various parts, the delicacy with which the most exciting moments are rather touched than dwelt...
...Mount Lycabettus, about fifteen minutes' walk from the centre of the city, is an open reservation about a quarter of a mile square, partly laid out as public grounds, partly occupied by public buildings. Here on the western side is the hospital Evangelion, and higher up the hill a plot of ground for a Normal School, the building for which has not yet been erected. On the eastern side is the old monastery of the Asomaton, now occupied as officers' barracks, standing picturesquely in the midst of trees, one of the few groves in Attica, the successor of the ancient...