Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mile. Pourgeot's Cat" is a mere sketch, but carefully and consistently written. The description of the little old lady is so telling as to be worthy quoting, though it consists of only two sentences. "She must have been about sixty, but her face was one of those so thoroughly good that they almost seem pretty. Her dress was exquisitely neat, and her hair was drawn smoothly back from the forehead and partly hidden by an immaculate white...
...sixteen prose articles and ten poems besides four "Topics of the Time" and four "Open Letters," contains an unusually varied assortment of subjects and styles. The most interesting articles should have been the two on Paderewski, one "A Critical Study," by William Mason, and the other "A Biographical Sketch," by Fanny Morris Smith, but unfortunately the former is so technical in its vocabulary as to be almost unintelligable to one not familiar with musical slang, while the latter, though it contains most interesting facts, many of which have not before been in the possession of the public, is little more...
...mass meeting at Princeton on Tuesday of those interested in sketching, it was voted to form a university sketch club. The club will study under a regular instructor...
...extremely mediocre college sonnet follows the Kodaks and precedes a sketch very cleverly done called. "Looking Backward." R. C. R. puts himself on indefinitely and looks back to describe the storm which took down the electric wires when Boston was still meshed in their death...
...rather pointless sketch of two boys one of whom drowns under circumstances somewhat difficult to understand finishes the number...