Word: rideout
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More satisfactory is the study of Rideout's work. Here, at least, we have what is worth having and worth noting: the views of an enthusiastic admirer who is at the age when admiration is generous and little restricted by the habit of criticism. It is not possible to accept all the conclusions of the writer, especially as he invalidates some of them himself--e. g., the simile of the lizard on the wall--but it is pleasant to see the genuine attempt to give a reason for the faith that is in the enthusiast...
...personal pronouns jars upon the ear. It is simple, and that is a quality too little thought of by young writers, apt to imagine that the more complex their sentences and the more far-fetched their comparisons the more artistic their work. The writer of the study on Rideout offends in this way: he has one sentence, if not more, that challenges the understanding and defeats...
Metropolitan--(July), "Hypnotism and Freedom," H. Munsterberg h.'01; (Aug.), "The Reverend Bong," H. M. Rideout...
...English Sc.-Second Advanced Course in composition. Mr.H. M. Rideout...
...Anglo Saxon. Mr.J. W. Rankin. English Literature of the Eighteenth Century. Mr. H. M. Rideout...