Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Advocate contains the best story that has appeared in that periodical for a long time. Though the "Twentieth Century Martyr" savors a little of the burlesque and would require some toning down to satisfy certain sticklers about good taste yet it is exceedingly witty and ingenious. The plot is amusing and is worked out with snap. Certain allusions to a respectable English lady novelist of the early part of this century will be appreciated by most of the readers of the story...
...need be said of a play so familiar to theatre goers as Bronson Howard's "Henrietta" which was given at the Hollis last evening. The confusion of the three Henriettas is an amusing idea. and the play will serve to pass an evening more or less pleasantly. But the plot is essentially bad, and many of the scenes are simply and unnecessarily disagreable. Robson's acting is as amusing as ever, and the same as ever. There is nothing new in his conception of Bertie Vanalstyne, and perhaps his admirers will be glad of it. The rest of the company...
...amusing Cambridge tale. Professor Cohn then read the comedy "Le Voyage in Dieppe," by Wafflard and Fulgence, which the society is to bring out this spring. The time of the play is supposed to be in the beginning of this century, before the day of railroads, and the plot turns on the misadventures of an old Paris bourgeois, who, with his wife and daughter, starts on a trip to Dieppe to see the ocean, and by a series of intricate circumstances, finds himself the next morning in Paris instead of at his destination. The play is in three acts...
...opening story, "Hic Jacet Sepultus," is an unfortunate production in every respect. It is conspicuous by its sensational style and slovenly English, which includes a wearisome use of the historical present and such expressions as "inscrutable weariness." The plot has certainly the merit of extreme originality, but is nevertheless decidedly unpleasant, and an unhealthy, toue pervades the whole story, the presence of which in a college periodical, is to be regretted. The author makes mistakes in the gender of his Latin principle and in his use of m'amie for mon ami and mon amie...
...Name Forgotten" is, as far as the plot of the story goes, good. It is interesting, and not prententions. The same cannot be said of the introductory remarks and incidents which lead the narrator to tell his story." The introduction is fully as long as the story itself, and henoe grows wearisome. Moreover the style of the introduction is not at all in harmony with the style of the story; it is heavy, dull, and florid...