Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...back-wood customs are decidedly novel, for example we are told that a common form of attention for the drivers to show their favorite horses is to feed them on chewing tobacco. Mr. John Fiske has an article in this number on Edward Augustus Freeman giving a sketch of his life and a brief study of his character. The most amusing article of the number is the "Diary of a Nervou Invalid" by E L. Bynner. Other noteworthy articles in this number are "George William Curtis and Civil Service Reform" by Sherman S. Rogers, and "Penelope's English Experiences...
...November numbers, the December Monthly is a disappointment. The graduate article is interesting from its very brilliant and enthusiastic style, but it is rambling and not pointed; a "first paper" on Cardinal Newman is scholarly but somewhat lifeless; and the "story" of the number is a delicate character-sketch, but lacks a visible cause for existence. The verse is much better than the prose, however, especially the "battle song" by Herbert Bates, ('90). It is to be hoped that so good an innovation as a "graduate poem," so to speak, will be continued. The editorial on the growth...
Perhaps, the most disappointing feature of this disappointing number is "A Mistake of the Bishops" by Pierre la Rose. It is a charmingly worded and sympathetic character-sketch, but after carrying one gently up to an apparent climax it leaves one in the air, with nothing to break one's fall, and the return to this mundane sphere is accompanied by something very like a dull thud...
...students of the Yale Law School have decided to publish a book containing a sketch of each man in the senior class and various articles contributed by students...
...good, beginning with an excellent piece of work entitled "Love Among Arms." It is an unusual story for a college magazine, the scene being on the Austrian border, and the plot, - for extraordinary as it may be, there is a plot, - is interesting and will worked out. The sketch which follows it is light and trifling, not wholly uninteresting, but of no great merit. And then come the Kodaks, And with one exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready not bad. The second...