Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard, 1820-1824" is a pleasant reminiscent sketch of life at Harvard College seventy years ago. Mr. Artemas Bowers Muzzey, himself a '24 man, tells of the old professors - their peculiarities and methods. And the picture which he draws for us of the modus vivendi of 1820-24, so opposite in many things to that of the present day, is charmingly vivid...
...Battle with Prejudice" is one of the best pieces of prose in the number, although it is below the usual standard of its author's work. As a character-sketch it is fairly vivid, although lacking a certain clearness of portraiture which is almost always a characteristic of its author's work in this line...
...Wicked Flee When no Man Pursueth" is a character sketch of country life, rather clever in its plot, and naturally related...
...Comedy of Errors" impresses one as a clever bit of character-delineation - certainly as good a piece of prose as there is in the eighth number of the Advocate. In the mutual misunderstanding of the man and the woman, who are the sole human characters of the sketch, we recognize certain phases of the story of Beatrice and Benedict - modernized. What constitutes the chief charm of the sketch is the directness of thought and expression, terseness in phrasing, and the simplicity shown in introducing perhaps the most important character of the tale, Chimborazo, the match-making...
...Moriturus" is a character sketch of a man who in a brief hour is brought abruptly by the merest accident from a healthy enjoyment of life face to face with death. The sketch has dramatic force...