Word: readers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...BREWER'S READER'S HANDBOOK of Allusions, References, Plots and Stories...
...BREWER'S READER'S HANDBOOK...
...addition to lists of courses, the reader will find statements of the academic careers of professors and instructors; special facilities in the various departments; requirements or advanced degrees and for admission to graduate standing; fellowships and scholarships open to such students, and other valuable details. The Handbook is a compilation that will be found useful by every person wishing a convenient, accurate exhibit of graduate instruction in America...
...courage to fail rather than leave the task unattempted? If the critic can be more helpful, he may be content to be less profound, original, or mature." The first three chapters of the work sketch the development of French literature till the close of the eighteenth century, that the reader may be reminded of those authors whose influence is still felt. The chapters that follow, however, discuss only those writers who have made material contributions to the field of French literature, or who mark advance or new departure. The language throughout the book is simple, the style clear...
...love of Carmichael, a Covenanting Minister, and Kate Carnegie, a girl of Jacobite descent, and the stress between their mutual love on the one side, and their political and religious differences on the other, furnishes material for a story full of delightful situations in which the author moves the reader's sympathies and appeals to his sense of humor. Those, however, who came to it expecting a story, or a "novel" will be disappointed, for it is really nothing more than a series of most delightful sketches of the characters in Drumtochty...