Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Amid much that is good in the prose of the number, a sketch, entitled "As It is Done Now," might be selected as, on the whole, the most artistic piece of work. This, as all of the productions of its author's have been, is characterized by a simple vigor of expression, a boldness in conception of plot, and an excellent sense of the fitness of things. Mr. Flandrau excels rather in vivid descriptions than in character delineations, and in the sketch under discussion the descriptive portions are the best parts, for neither the hero nor the heroine...
...Mathieu's Torture Post" is a pathetic character sketch of a Paris painter who in his feverish enthusiasm for art allows his only friend, a little fellow much younger than himself, to hang from a post, head down, in a torturing position in order that he may have a model for the masterpiece which he is painting. This torture naturally kills the boy by degrees, although the end does not come till Mathieu comes home with the news that he has won the medaille d'honneur. The story as a whole suggests Guy de Maupassant. Although the idea...
...Year's Message" is a sketch of quiet home-life with a dash of pathos which is certainly not forced. The story is told simply and naturally, although one cannot help wondering what the exact reason was for the ten years' delay in delivering the message, which forms the theme of the tale...
...showed how bitter he felt against the Catholic Church. He saw danger in it, for toward the end of his life, was a period of Catholic domination, when the whole spirit of affairs seemed subjected to Catholic influence. Professor Emerton defined first the term "Catholic" and gave a historical sketch of the growth of the Church. The Catholic idea was originally an educational one; a scheme for the regeneration of men. At the time when it originated, there were many systems of philosophy, but the hope of a future for religion had to be based on something besides these, something...
...brief sketch of the history of these lectures may be of interest. Chief Justice Dudley of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts made a bequest in 1750, of a little over sigma 23 for the support of a series of four lectures, one each year, occurring in regular rotation and treating of subjects in religion. Justice Dudley was of an investigating turn of mind, more or less of a scientist and very much interested in all matters of theology. Being interested in Harvard College, he thought it would be a good thing to establish these lectures as regular institutions...