Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday and contains much good reading matter. "Auf Widersehen" is a well-turned translation of Heine's lovely poem. "The Morality of Tom Jones" makes one or two good points but is not very much of a literary production. Considerable skill is shown in the treatment of a sketch entitled "The Streets of Boston." "Banished" is a bright, humorous conceit. Of the two papers on Milton and on Goethe, the latter is decidedly the stronger. They are both treated in a rather cursory way and the ideas embodied in both essays would not suffer from greater elaboration. The best...
...well worth a careful perusal, as it throws much new light on this well-worn theme. "Nature's Poem" is a delicate bit of verse, and expresses a pretty idea in highly artistic form. Mr. Palmer has also added much interest to this number by a well-written sketch of Ben Johnson's life works. Mr. Carman's "Willow Buds" appears to be a little labored, and lacks naturalness. The most remarkable piece of writing in this number is, "A Moon Fragment," by Mr. J. B. Fletcher, which will appeal to many though its originality. "Youth," by Mr. Sanford, shows...
...subjects treated. The number opens with a dialect story of country life by Sarah Orne Jewett. Thomas Bailey Aldrich's poem upon Napoleon III., entitled "The Last Caesar," a reverie in the Tuileries gardens, is one of the strongest of his later productions. Mr. William Chauncey Langdon contributes a sketch of Marco Minghetti, the lately deceased Italian patriot. Clinton Scollard's poem, "The Maenads" is carefully written, but does not have the spontaneity of the most of his verse. It is hard and slightly mechanical. "The Decline of Duty," by George Frederic Parsons, is an ethical paper, which gives evidence...
...taught by faith. The university of the future is that which teaches nothing that is useless and everything that is good its duty is to elevate the standard of all professions, and to make men good citizens. The classics are indispensable studies. Mr. Coudert concluded with a spirited sketch of the college...
...Princetonian of Wednesday contains a sketch of the Intercollegiate Base-ball League which has just been dissolved...