Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After reading "Madame Savarra," one involuntarily smiles. It is a peculiar thing, original enough, it is true, but by no means remarkable. The sketch which follows it, "The Race is not always to the Swift" is, 'o our way of thinking, the best contribution to the number. The story is well told working up to a good climax; the oaths are effective and our "pastry - faced" friend, "Algernon. Fitz-Jones" turns out a man. There is a liveliness and swing in the description of the race which is very attractive...
...novels of English life. The hero poses as another Beau Brummel and talks of shopkeepers 'who ought to feel proud of his patronage. The good valet who pays his master's debts out of his savings, and the goodness of his heart, him we have met before. And the sketch is not improved by its tame tragic ending...
...Dance on the Susquehanna," by W. D. Howe is a pretty good sketch, especially when one takes into account the fact that almost all the plot is implied rather than expressed. The three most important events of the incident are told, very briefly, yet quite vividly, and there are a few words of introduction and conclusion. That is all, yet the plot is entirely clear...
...noteworthy contribution to the June number of the Century is the first installment of a new story, "The Chatelaine of La Trinite." It is by Mr. Henry B. Fuller, a Chicago man, who about a year ago gave evidence of exceptional talent-not to say genious,-in his Italian sketch, the "Chevalier of Pensieri-Vani." In the "Chatelaine" we find the same individual charm of style, the felicity of expression and the happy touches in the descriptions which characterized his previous work, and there is good reason to hope that Mr. Fuller will keep up to the high standard which...
Every one, however, will be delighted by the story of "A Poor Millionaire," by Mary L. Adams, as charming a character sketch as one often sees...