Word: readers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...then takes up the questions of property, labor, co-operation as advocated by Christianity, re-organization of industry, and concludes with a treatise on scientific and Christian socialism. It is written in a concise and logical style, and not so technical as to be uninteresting to the ordinary reader. The book may be found of particular value to students who are taking certain of the economic and ethical courses which deal with social problems...
...third part of Mrs. Catherwood's serial, "Old Kaskaskia," which opens the March number of the Atlantic Monthly, is full of interest, and leaves the reader at a point which will make him wish that the next number of the magazine followed at a shorter interval than a month...
...kind of interest. The effect is almost absurd. The illustrations of "A Comedy of Counterplots" are the worst in the number; one is a fanciful portrait of two men dancing hand in hand in a most unnatural position. It would be far pleasanter to have appearances left to the reader's imagination than to have all pleasant ideas of the characters dispelled by such lifeless and ridiculous pictures. The two leading articles of the number are the story "Which Miss Charteris." and "Ice Yachting." The former is a love story which makes pleasant enough reading, but which is nothing...
Once more it is our painful duty to call the attention of our readers to the continued evidence of poor taste on the part of the editors of Outing. "Harry's Career at Yale" has passed its fiftieth chapter and gives no signs of ceasing. We have heard of editors stopping the publication of stories on account of overdrawn realism or naturalism; it is well nigh time we were hearing of editors stopping the publication of stories on account of the greater sin of stupidity. The world has already had more than enough of "Harry" and his "Career...
...Lovett's paper on "Cardinal Newman" is, as has been said, very careful and scholarly, but it has not the life to commend it to the ordinary reader, and the pains taken with it will not make up to him for its length. The fact that in spite of this length the substance is of excellent material, does not prevent its being...