Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Ghostly" is a long and rather interesting story, though one is inclined to skip the preface which has almost nothing to do with the plot, and to begin the fiction at "Spoff's First Prayer." The story is well told, the scene laid in British Columbia, and the plot deals with a solitary hunter, who, compelled to spend the night in a deserted Indian village, meets there his hospitable ghost...
...Spent" is the chief fiction number of the magazine. Although rather well written, it deals with a plot not especially agreeable and rather drawn out. A few touches of description in it are well done...
...second installment of that much heralded bit of college fiction, "Harry's Career at Yale," appears in this number and is as yet entirely without plot. We doubt very strongly whether many men would be impelled from the reading of the story to desert Harvard for Yale...
...installment of which appears in this month's number, with a brief introduction by Minister Whitelaw Reid. In it Talleyrand replies directly to his accusers, and denies categorically and with emphasis that he had anything to do with the execution of the Duc d'Enghien or with an alleged plot to assassinate Napoleon...
...Rational Cure," the only bit of fiction in the number, is an excellent piece of work. While the plot as a whole has no particular originality, there are a number of minor incidents which Mr. Hapgood has treated in a fresh and novel manner. The author has woven into his cloth several threads of Boston Bohemianism, Beacon Street society, and man's affection requited and the whole forms a fabric at once compact and pleasing...