Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...author that we have a noble example in Princeton and hope that we are men enough to follow it. The other editorials certainly express college opinion except that on the Harvard-Yale debate which does not express much of anything. The first article of the number is a sketch of the college life of the late Samuel Foster McCleary by one of his classmates...
...Berlin" by Friedrich Spielhagen. The most prominent feature of the article is the long list of pictures of all the principal buildings and places in Berlin. The most entertaining article in this issue is "The Abysmal Depths of the Sea" by J. Carter Beard. It gives a short sketch of the conditions of the water and the floor of the ocean, together with a description of some of the plant and animal life found at great depths. It makes fascinating reading. Rev. Edward Everett Hale has an article on "The Story of a Boys' Club," describing how a crowd...
...happens fiction is not otherwise represented in this number unless one includes Elizabeth Bellamy's clever sketch of negro life, called "Mom Cely's Wonderful Luck." Edward Everett Hale's first paper on "My College Days" is written with much brightness, and gives an interesting account of Harvard College in the days of President Quincy, abounding in reminiscences of well-known students and professors. Another paper of reminiscent interest is a charming essay by Mr. H. C. Merwin, "On Growing Old;" while Dr. William Henry Furness offers some "Random Reminiscences of Emerson," which throw new light on the personality...
...biographical papers there are Captain A. T. Mahan's sketch of "Admiral the Earl of St. Vincent," and John Foster Kirk's "An English Family in the Seventeenth Century," - the family in question being the Verneys, and the papers being based on the memoirs of the Verney family during the English civil war. An interesting unsigned paper, also based on a volume of memoirs, is entitled "A Great Lady of the French Restoration," - Madame de Gontaut...
...paper by Havelock Ellis, on "The Ancestry of Genius;" "Persian Poetry." by Sir Edward Strachey; and the extremely picturesque and pathetic sketch of the life of a Japanese dancing girl, written by Lafcadio Hearn, complete the more notable contents of the number. A paper on "Words," by Agnes Repplier, however, should not be forgotten by those who have enjoyed this clever woman's essays in past numbers of the magazine...