Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best piece of prose in the number is the "The Light-House Keeper's Story." It is a plain, unvarnished tale of the sea, with little plot. The chief charm of this brief story lies in its smoothness of diction and naturalness of sentiment. It is less ambitious than either of the others of the author's contributions to the Advocate, but it is characterized by the same simplicity of style...
There have been few stories in recent magazine literature so extraordinary in its plot and so forcible in its vivid descriptions as the late William Douglass O'Connor's "Brazen Android," the concluding portion of which appears in the Atlantic Monthly for May. If the first part of the romance was remarkable, it was at least within the lines in which story tellers are accustomed to confine themselves; but the character introduced in the second part is so inexplicable, and his action in the story so tremendous, that what has seemed but strange hitherto becomes now the merest commonplace...
...Truth About Foxy Smith" wants the smoothness of diction of the story which precedes it, although there are several clever touches in the first part of the sketch. The plot has little originality...
...story "After Twenty Years," in the Advocate. The story which appears today is a student reminiscent sketch, depicting in a perfectly natural manner the abyss of mortification into which a particular seaside resort, a particular girl, and a particular masquerade ball plunged a certain college man. The plot is clever and well worked out and the language shows no inappropriate word or phrase...
...fiction of the number is of that class which is familiarly known as "light and readable," the kind with which one beguiles away an hour or so on the cars. "An American Rosalind" shows more or less cleverness of plot. The verse of the number is not of the highest order...