Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last Harper's Weekly contains a very complimentary sketch of the president-elect of Vassar, Rev. James M. Taylor...
...chapters of William Henry Bishop's new serial, "The Golden Justice," appear in the Atlantic for May. Charles Egbert Craddock's installment of 'In the Clouds" is in her best manner. Henry James continues his "Princess Casamassima" in characteristic style. The fiction of the number is completed by a sketch of New England life, "Marsh Rosemary," by Sarah Orne Jewett. Mr. John Fiske continues his papers on American History by one treating of "The Weakness of the American Government under the Articles of Confederation." Mr. E. P. Evans has a paper on "The Aryan Homestead." Mr. W. J. Stillman contributes...
Julian Hawthorne has an interesting sketch in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly entitled, "Problems of the Scarlet Letter...
...fact that Mr. Berenson does not grasp his subject with the firmness which might be desired, yet his knowledge of early Russian literature and his thoughtful estimate of the piece in question, The Revisor, make what he says worthy of attention. Mr. W. W. Baldwin has a very sympathetic sketch of southern life, - an old negro's story of the death of a son in battle. The piece has a touch of truth and feeling rare in our college papers. The only other prose article, which is by Mr. H. G. Bruce, is entitled The Confessions of Donald Grant...
...side of the profession may be removed by the admission of educated practitioners. At the same time young men should not be advised to become physicians. Medicine must be put on a more scientific basis. Lack of possibility of intelligent appreciation of good work, is a great drawback. The sketch of the physician in Middle-march is good, though by a woman, - one of a sex which we have taken a good deal of pains to exclude from the profession. The functions of the physician are extending to matters of insanity, sanitary engineering, etc. The underlying diathesis of disease...