Word: reader
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...standard of previous numbers, the Advocate which appears today is decidedly good. The articles which are least interesting are chiefly to be condemned for an entire lack of originality; but this fault is perhaps more excusable than many others which are generally forced on the notice of the reader. The only serious mistake can unfortunately be laid to the charge of no one in particular; but the unknown author of "A Poet" is sadly in error when, in his vain struggle to write verse, he says, "My words my servants are." To make this in any way credible, it would...
...author of what is perhaps the vest article, entitled "Westward Bound"; but "Their Marriage was a Failure," by Luther W. Mott, and "God, Man and the Devil," both deserve praise. All three are short pieces, yet the plot of each is well developed and the interest of the reader is at once attracted and, what is rarer, is held to the end. Work of this kind will do much to raise the standard of the Advocate...
...Pier, is a very clever little piece, describing with the neccssary amount of life the devotion of five brothers to the belle of a country village, and their final amusing dismissal. The author has taken advantage of the fact that little touches of nature are what please the reader who reads for entertainment. In the same way the third of "Three Sketches," and "In the One Room," both telling stories of real life which can appeal to the hearer, are interesting and pleasing. The author of this last is John Mack, Jr. The first gives no name...
...first issue of the Monthly for the coming winter. This October number is distinctly good, and the Monthly will be doing well if it can keep to the standard set by it. It may fairly be said that none of the prose pieces fail to interest and instruct the reader...
...World's Fair which we would like to put into words if we could, but which are so undefinable, and so grand at the same time, that we find it impossible. Professor Wendell, however, takes up the subject in such a suggestive and attractive way, that the reader finds impressions of his own put before him,- impressions that before he scarcely knew...