Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chief results of these discoveries as regards the reconstruction of the history of the East before the Persian rule. Sketch of the gradual expansion of early Babylonian civilization, of the various states of Northern and Southern Babylonia, and of the rise of Assyria...
...publish a few paragraphs from Mr. Wendell's article on "Social Life at Harvard" in the current number of Lippincott's. This sketch, one of the most admirable, both for accuracy and for the general tone of treatment which have been published for some time, de serves the careful perusal of all who are interested in the welfare of "the foremost university of America." The paper is written with great care and presents most impartially the social condition of life at Harvard as it at present exists. With the exception of the one or two remarks of questionable taste...
...town of Roxbury, founded soon after Boston, did much work towards the close of the Seventeenth Century in starting new colonies, and among many was one, Woodstock, Connecticut, which on the seventh of last September celebrated its two hundredth birthday. The above is an historical sketch delivered on that day to the people, and traces the town's history to the present...
...opening poem, "The Desert Warrior," is a stirring war-song from the Arabic. It is smoothly and powerfully written, and there is a wild ring in the concise lines which adds double force to the warrior's savage and boastful song. "A Country Frolic" is a jolly life-like sketch, almost making one see the party at the "Forge." There would have been no diminution of the general effect of the sketch, if the conclusion had not contained the almost inevitable and common reference to a marriage. "Uncle Joe" is a sweet little story on a rather threadbare theme. However...
...Dale," the author of "Guerndale," has in press a collection of his most successful short stories, a number of which have so considerably added to his reputation. The volume will be named "The Sentimental Calendar," a sketch being allotted to each of the twelve months of the year, with regard to the appropriateness of the tale. Several new stories will also be included in the book, which the Scribners are to bring out as a holiday volume. - Independent...