Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question of sculpture. Besides this there are the ordinary expository articles which one meets so often in magazines, such as "The Republic of Peru," and "A Birds-Eye View of the Sahara." There is but little fiction in the number, a rather conventional story by Grace Blanchard, a sketch called "Pretty Miss Barneveld," and the conclusion of "One of a Thousand." The "curiosities." so to speak, are the fac-sim-iles of Whittier's first two printed poems, or Longfelow's sonnets to Whittier and Tennyson, and Tennyson's acknowledgment of Longfellow's sonnet...
...Black then gave a short sketch of the old Norsemen, their habits and character, and their religion. He showed how they brought with them their old songs and legends, and how they influenced the native legends in Britain. Only three of these legends have safely passed the destructive hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told...
...afore mentioned good story is the "Tyrolean Incident" which was recently read and favorably criticized in English 12. It is certainly a very good sketch and an air of originality as given by the picturesque background of the Bavarian Tyrol. It is to be hoped that more work of the same class will be forthcoming for criticism is here a pleasure...
...Murat Halstead has an article on the "City of Hamburg" and Mr. William H. Rideing writes of "A Recent Visit to Mr. Gladstone at Hawarden." An entertaining and very interesting sketch of "Art Schools of Paris' is contributed by Miss Lucy Hooper. Archibald Forbes tells the story of the Fall of Constantinople as it appeared to a war correspondent and Mr. George W. Cable speaks of "Education, for the Common People in the South...
...While the Shows went on" is a good piece of work. The interest is well sustained not withstanding the length and unchanging form of the story. "He" as the hero is designated, suggests somehow the great Van Bibber and the sketch in its motive brings to mind "A Walk up the Avenue" by Richard Harding Davis. The verse of the number is neither extensive nor remarkable; the "Song; after the manner of An Old Poet" deserves to be mentioned however...