Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spite of the fact that it is the most pretentious. The story is of an invalid, - a young man, - who, with his friend and his mother, is spending the winter in a dahabeha on the Nile, and of his death there. The sleepy, sultry atmosphere of the scene is admirably caught, while the interest is well sustained throughout. The words too are well chosen and descriptive...
...Sawdust" is a sketch of much power. In it Mr. Hapgood has delineated two characters, - a woman whose passion and love for a certain man are not returned, and the man. The scene which he portrays is incontestably vivid...
...Unrewarded" is one of the best of its author's efforts of the year. It is a well executed sketch of a pathetic scene...
...first experience in collaboration, and the story is not only international in authorship but also in plot. It opens on the bridge of an irrigating ditch in a Western State, and at the close of the first instalment there is already an indication of a change of the scene to India. The motive of the story is the quest of an American, Nicholas Tarvin, for a celebrated necklace of jewels which hangs round the neck of an idol, in the province of Rajputana, and which he has promised to bring back to Mrs. Mutrie, at Topaz, Colorado, in order...
...Ghostly" is a long and rather interesting story, though one is inclined to skip the preface which has almost nothing to do with the plot, and to begin the fiction at "Spoff's First Prayer." The story is well told, the scene laid in British Columbia, and the plot deals with a solitary hunter, who, compelled to spend the night in a deserted Indian village, meets there his hospitable ghost...