Word: sketched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sketch Club, so successful at Princeton a few years ago, which had died from lack of interest has been revived. A professional artist will be engaged to give instruction...
...stories entitled "Penelope's Suitors," by E. L. Bynner, and "An American Flirtation," by Grace Denio Litchfield, are excellent reading. Stuart Chimsholm gives an account of experiences in South America in "Over the Andes," and another paper is added to the series on "The Lakes of Upper Italy." A sketch by Francis Coppee, and an article by Lathrop on "Combination Novels," are interesting reading. In addition to this there are a valuable considerations of "Canada and the British Connection," by Edward Stanwood, and a paper on birds and bird life. The poetry, and the department of the Contributors' Club...
...only for reading, but for continual reference have been scattered through the volume. In every possible case, American illustrations have been employed in the text instead of English or Continental ones, and to American students this will add greatly to the interest and life of the book. A considerable sketch of the history of political economy is given in the earlier pages, and bibliographies are inserted at the beginning and end. Several chapters have had matter added to them, and one, on the "Future of the Laboring Classes," has been entirely re-written. "In some cases, "Prof. Laughlin states...
...November Atlantic has a large number of interesting articles. The serial, "In War Times," approaches a finish, and the paper on the "lakes of Upper Italy" reaches its third number. An unfinished sketch by the late Henry James, Sr., Prof. Shaler's "Negro Problem, the Embryo of a Common-wealth by Brooks Adams and a sketch of Aivazofsky by W. J. Armstrong are among the contributions. Poems are written by Whittier, Paul Hamilton, Hayne, R. N. Taylor and Julle K. Witherell...
...July Manhattan will have a humorous short story, "Plain Fishing," by Frank R. Stockton, the author of that amusing sketch, the "Lady of the Tiger?" A biographical and critical paper will appear on the Earl of Dufferin, written by J. L. Whittle, the earl's in intimate friend, and one of the staff of the Lord Chancellor of England. J. Parker Norris, so well known as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, is not likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue...