Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which those who simply read their books can never attain. Although within the last two months a number of articles about Lowell have appeared, none of them went safely into an account of Lowell's student and home life as does Mr. Sanborn's. He draws a vivid sketch of the intellectual and social life of Cambridge, when the class of 1838 graduated, - when President Kirkland, of whom Lowell in his "Fireside Travels" has left so charming a picture, had been dead for some years, and Dr. Holmes had just left Cambridge for Boston, - when Allston was living...
...Little Old French Woman," is an admirable sketch of a bizarre old creature who on being raised to comparative affluence by a legacy of fifty thousand francs, founds an asylum for straw cats. The touches of character sketching are well laid on, although the idea of the thing as a whole is suggestive of T. B. Aldrich's translation from the French of "The Story...
Considered as a story, "A Benevolent Murder" lacks climax; as a sketch, it is fairly excellent and shows some originality of treatment, although the concluding remark of the doctor is trite and out of place...
...Kitchin" is a simple sketch of country life, although the pathos is rather forced...
...special interest to Harvard men are "The Schools at Oxford" by S. E. Winbolt, and "Journalism and Literature" by W. J Stillman. The former gives an excellent sketch of the life of the different classes of Oxford men, the different societies and clubs, the system of examinations; and he dilates at some length on the advisability of granting the degree after three years' work, -a discussion which all Harvard men will enjoy. Professor William J. Stillman's paper on "Journalism and literature" will be read with disfavor by the journalist and with more or less pleasure by the litterateur...