Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...attract the most attention is probably the new novel, "The Naulahka," by Rudyard Kipling and Walcott Bolestier, the latter a well-known American now living in London. This is Mr. Kipling's first experience in collaboration, and the story is not only international in authorship but also in plot. It opens on the bridge of an irrigating ditch in a Western State, and at the close of the first instalment there is already an indication of a change of the scene to India. The motive of the story is the quest of an American, Nicholas Tarvin, for a celebrated necklace...
...prose of the number could be classified under the general head of sketches, for there is scarcely a suggestion of a plot in the two articles which are avowedly fiction. "The Princess Barietinsky" approaches nearest of any of them to a story and is the most finished piece o prose of the number. The delineation of the character of the princess, a hypocritical Russian woman is the another's chief object and it is certainly well done. Her charming personality, the rapt admiration of Protopop off for her, and her detestable double dealing are vividly portrayed...
...number is a story by Mr. Lovett entitled "The Coward." It is a reminiscence of war-times, the tale of a man who was apparently guilty of cowardice during a battle and who afterwards sacrificed his life to a mob in New York to save a negro. The plot is more or less chimerical but there are a number of vivid descriptions in it, - notably the account of the New York...
...Story," by Brander Matthews, is perhaps the most entertaining as well as the most original that has come from the pen of this gifted playwright for some time. Another good story is "Was It an Exceptional Case?" by Miss Matt Crim, which bears in certain features of theme and plot a striking resemblance to Mr. Howells' story. "+++n Imperative Duty...
Perhaps the most original bit of prose in the number is "A Plea for the Higher Education of Apparitions." In it there are several bright ideas and humorous turns of thought, the slight plot of the whole hinging on the ignorance which a spirit-visitor displays in not knowing the difference in time between London and New York...