Word: rondeau
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...November contains a varied store of seasonable reading and artistic illustration. The contents are as follows: "Rugged Labrador," by R. G. Taber; "Duck Shooting on Great South Bay," by J. D. Knap; "Old Plute's Gobbler," by Charles E. Taylor; "Over Ifinger Jock," by Jean Porter Rudd; "A Rondeau Muskallonge," by Ed. W. Sandys; "A Ceylon Tracker," by F. Fitzroy Dixon; "Through an Autumn Gale;" "Banana Land Awhell," by E. M. Aaron; "A Shot at a Shadow," by Paul Pastnor; "Lenz's World Tour Awheel;" "A Bit of Blue Ribbon," by Sara Beaumont Kennedy; "The International Athletic Match...
...poetry consists of a sonnet and a rondeau. The sonnet is good poetry but not a good sonnet, while the rondeau is not only good in form, but is decidedly above the average in style and thought...
...Coming of the Storm" is a vivid description in verse of the out-break of a tempest over the ocean and "When Silvia Sings" is a rondeau which shows some of the true Dobsonian grace...
...peculiarly strong. The style is more of the old-fashioned simple sort, without the tiresome details of the present realistic tendency in literature. The two other tales, The Wanderings of Alexis II. and the Two Margarets are also vigorous and interesting. The verse contributions to the number are a rondeau. "Ah! Bye-gone Days," a pastoral, and two bits of airy song, entitled "August-October" and "The Difference." In an editorial, the members of the sophomore class are criticised for their lack of readiness to contribute...
...generation ago. In the place of interminable epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress or only growing frivolity is out of our line of enquiry. It is an interesting fact that in many respects our southern exchanges are in the earlier stages...