Word: sketch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...read pages; it not only presents the lecturer himself, but adds as well all the magnetic power of the lecturer. Herein is a great advantage, for Snodkins can, in his own room, commune with his instructor. How are written notes to be compared with this almost living lecturer! The sketch will speak to Snodkins just as one of the paintings of the old masters speaks to the world...
...Chinese in America, from which circumstance I have to draw too obvious conclusions about my friend's nationality. The portraits of the great lecturer are almost without number, representing him in every conceivable position. They are all dated, I suppose to give individuality to the different ones. Each sketch, I conclude, represents the ideas of a certain lecture given, say, No. 24, or No. 26. The affixing of the dates, then, to the portraits is really a "great scheme." In this note-book of Snodkins we find also sketches of almost everything else in the room, of busts, desks...
...Edwin Dudley, Sec'y of the Nat. Law and Order League, followed Prof. Peabody. He gave a brief sketch of the history of the League, showing how much the cause resembled the cause of slavery, how hopeless both had seemed at first. The first league was formed in Chicago, in 1877, with the purpose of enforcing the liquor laws passed in Illinois in 1860. During the intervening eight years, only two arrests had been made, neigther of which resulted in conviction. In a very short time the League had turned into the city treasury, over $1,300,000 from fines...
...Sketch Club at Princeton is working hard under the direction of Mr. Baer, one of Harper Brothers' staff of artists...
...ATLANTIC MONTHLY for March, Dr. Holmes definitely opens his " New Portfolio," which is very entertaining. Beside the three serials, there are several papers which are of value to thoughtful readers. The chief of these is a sketch by Clara Barnes Martin, called " The Mother of Turgeneff," which gives a curious account of the early influences which surround the great novelist, and a striking picture of Russian home-life fifty years ago. Two articles, " Time in Shakespeare's Comedies," by Henry A. Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone...