Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Unrewarded" is one of the best of its author's efforts of the year. It is a well executed sketch of a pathetic scene...
...emphasized as well as Dr. Hale, the desirability of modesty in college men, of a readiness to learn as well as to teach. He suggested that some competent laboring man in the Port should be induced to take a class of college men, and give them a biographical sketch of himself or of some of his friends. Various sociological questions might with advantage be investigated and monograms published thereon. Methods of philanthropic work should also be studied...
...introduction Professor Marsh spoke of his intention of describing, not so much this period itself, as the profitable way in which we may all study this intensely interesting and useful subject. And the basis of his course of lectures will be in the first a historical sketch of the period; in the second, an account of the work already done on the subject; and in his final lecture, the way in which we may undertake the work for ourselves...
...Owing to a Misunderstanding" is a sketch of western mining life of which the author has succeeded in giving a fairly good picture. The dialect of the story is good, although the idea of the tale is threadbare...
...Revels of Mon Marcel" is one of the most powerful stories which has appeared in the Monthly for some time. Its author, Austin Smith, has slipped out of the beaten tracks and given us an original and strongly-executed sketch of a man who is entirely removed from the common-place, for Dufont, the hero of the tale, has an individuality so strongly marked that he rouses one's interest at the opening of the story. He was a man who "at times looked like a devil that had been chained up by society and taught to walk...