Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number, a sketch, entitled "As It is Done Now," might be selected as, on the whole, the most artistic piece of work. This, as all of the productions of its author's have been, is characterized by a simple vigor of expression, a boldness in conception of plot, and an excellent sense of the fitness of things. Mr. Flandrau excels rather in vivid descriptions than in character delineations, and in the sketch under discussion the descriptive portions are the best parts, for neither the hero nor the heroine of the sketch stand out very clearly and the little conversation that...
...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...
...fifth number of the Advocate, like the fourth has much excellent matter, the prose out-weighing the verse. By far the best piece of work in the number is a story entitled "From a Diary," by C. M. Flandrau. It is thoronghly artistic in every way. The plot is very simple - an ordinary love affair, - but it is worked out in exactly the right way. There is nothing unnatural in any of the conversations or situations, yet there is plenty of the unconventional and unexpected. The descriptions of the various Russian scenes which from the background of the story - morning...
...Barren Achievement" is an oddly onceived story of a people in Holland who gave their ideas into the keeping of an old man, and upon his death, were left a "sad, idealess people." The language of the tale is good, but the whole plot strikes us as unnatural...
...loved wisely and well by a Harvard man, who marries another girl, however, and who herself finally marries his valet. Cupid still continues to stretch "the silver cord of love" between the Harvard man and his operatic loved one, and as the correct working out of the plot demands that they should come together, the wife of the Harvard man and his valet very conveniently fall off a wharf and are drowned! While the story, as a whole, has some good descriptions, the idea of it is highly improbable...