Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Paris" by Mary Ford. Its best feature is the number of pictures of the leading American ladies of Paris. "The Spoil of the Puma" is a capital hunting story of the West. Hjalmar Hjorth Boyeson contributes a brief study of Herrick Ibsen's poems in which is supplemented a portrait of Ibsen. "Crinoline Folly," is a sketch of the crinoline fashion in the past and the present and is very well illustrated. "A Revolution in Means of Communication" is a complete and very interesting description of the telautograph...
...Sophomore class of Oberlin will present the college with a portrait of Pres. Belletine on their class day, next June...
...Portrait by Whistler" by H. U. Greene is perhaps the best thing in this line in the number, though it can hardly be called poetry. "The Song of Man" by H. B. Eddy is certainly not poetry. "Melancholy" by Eugene Warner is rather below this author's former work. The simile in this last, "like an Oriental steeped in oblivious drug, insensate lying" is not pleasing. "On the Progressive Motion of One's Best Foot" by C. M. Flandrau is the cleverest thing in the number. It is written in an entertaining style and consists of some rather cynical advice...
...number. It is a story of Provencal life and is well illustrated by Castaigne. A very interesting article is "Napoleon's Deportation to Elba" by the officer in charge, Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher of the Royal Navy. It is a detailed description of the voyage and is illustrated with portraits of Napoleon and Sir Thomas Ussher. "Jamaica" is written and illustrated by Gilbert Gaul. It is a short account of life on the Island of Jamaica with three or four pictures of typical native scenes. The installment of "Letters of two Brothers," passages from the correspondence of General and Senator...
...frontispiece is a portrait of the Bishop from a photograph by Pach taken recently in Cambridge. There have been better likenesses, but as the Harvard picture, sentiment makes it good. After the portrait there is printed in full the last sermon Dr. Brooks preached in Appleton chapel. One cannot read it without seeing the great man in the pulpit and feeling again the force of his rushing words on the "necessity of life" and "the glory of obedience." There is also a fac-simile of the last page of the same sermon with the date of its delivery...