Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Misericordia," is good and the style is clear and well-worded, but the brevity and disjointedness of the treatment detract much from the general effect of the story. Of a very different style is the story of "A Crime," from the French. It is vivid and picturesque, though the plot-a dream of a man who contemplated murder-is too horrible to be pleasant. The best article in the number is "Is in a Seaport Town." The description of the old decaying seaport town is charmingly written. The verse of the number consists of two college "poems" and a hunting...
...delination of character "The Barber's Romance" is successful to the end. Pride and self-assertion compromised by marriage is the theme. But beside others, the story has this additional merit, that, as the writer says-and no one after reading would attempt to contradict him-the plot is founded on facts. The reader finishes the story with nothing but pity for the poor, insulted little Frenchman, brought by love to mediocrity; and is forced for a time on this one phase of life so well depicted...
...quite another view, yet after its manner excellent, is the story of "How I was not Married." The touch is light and graceful, and hence well adapted to the plot. There are, in the course of the story, many of the delicate turns which, when skilfully handled, always add a charm of their own. Julia's clever plot to outwit the maniac minister is a particularly happy idea...
...first two chapters of "Bird Tavern" are better than the third, both in point of style and in the development of the plot. There is a suggestion of the improbable toward the end. The story, however, is as a whole interesting and deserves a commendation...
...Captain Peter" is a very touching story of an old man's love. The scene is laid in one of the old Berkshire hill towns. The plot is realistic and the treatment excellent; the style, however, would be more effective were it in parts less choppy...