Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...strongest as well as the most elaborately worked-up, and "Yesterday and Today," though it does not make itself entirely clear, comes easily second. "A Glass of Absinthe" is rather too artificial in its style to have force enough to carry its incident. "A Clover" is a mere sketch, but not badly done...
...Patriot" is a well written and humorous sketch, dealing with an American girl just returned from England. The subject is a trifle old, but the humor and naturalness makes it interesting...
Mile Wasabelle Beauxjambes.Time, a character sketch by the property man. "Da Monk," taken by a young artist who believes in a mastery of the Primal or Darwinian prinples of expression...
...means a great poet, but he wrote some charming sonnets, noted chiefly for their mastery of form. He is especially interesting because, as the writer says, he was in many senses the forerunner of Spenser, to whom he transmitted the eclogue. "Madonna Mia" is a charming character sketch, written in the characteristic style of the authoress. There is a simplicity and impulsiveness attached to the little French girl that is very interesting and makes one wish that the authoress would try her hand oftener at such sketches. "Imaginative" by John Cummings is not up to the usual standard...
...Dime Museum," by Hallowell Abbott, is remarkably sympathetic, and, as it does not pretend to be anything more than a sketch, this quality, together with its simplicity of style, makes it very readable...