Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...December Monthly's table of contents is unusually varied, containing a story, two essays, a sketch, three poems, a communication, and a general article...
...December Monthly, entitled "The Coming Man in Fiction." It is a psychical study of the dominant hero of fiction as he will appear in the near future. The originality and the masculine strength of the English are as strongly marked as is the general incoherence of the whole sketch. What its author says of the future hero of fiction understands by life, "a sum of sensations, strained and attenuated to the last point of consciousness" - might well be applied to the whole article...
...Sawdust" is a sketch of much power. In it Mr. Hapgood has delineated two characters, - a woman whose passion and love for a certain man are not returned, and the man. The scene which he portrays is incontestably vivid...
Besides the above mentioned articles, there is a sheaf of delightful Christmas stories, - "The Christmas Shadrach," by Frank R. Stockton; "A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral," by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "Wulfy; A Waif," a Christmas sketch from life by Miss Vida D. Scudder, and "The Rapture of Hetty," by Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, the last dealing with a Christmas dance on the frontier, and a number of general articles. The poetry of the number is of a high order...
...Under the Sofa" might be called the spice of the literary dish which Mother Advocate sets before the college this time - for it is a vivacious dialogue with touches here and there of true Lampoon wit. The hero of the sketch is obliged by force of circumstances to remain under a sofa in a room where an afternoon tea is going on, and amusing complications naturally ensue...