Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...perhaps, natural that, seeing "Count Tolstoy at Home," she should make this the title and subject of a paper in the November Atlantic, which is one of the features of the number. Miss Hapgood, although admiring his great gifts, is not a blind adherent of his changeable philosophies. Her sketch is therefore clever and trenchant and it must be read if one would understand Tolstoy better than perhaps he understands himself. It is a useful bit of information for the layman that the name Tolstoy with the y is the writer's own way of spelling his own name...
...from lack of opportunity or from hyper-prudishness are not familiar with it will find Mr. Jefferson B. Fletcher's critical article on this great French writer (which, by the way, occupies the place of honor) an interesting and just piece of work. He gives a short sketch of Dumas's early life and of the conditions which were largely instrumental in shaping his character, and then he goes on to discuss the dominant ideas of Dumas's novels and plays, his types of women (the Preraphaelesque, the Bachante, and the Penelope), - some of which Mr. Fletcher thinks...
...write of the dead poet, being, as he was, a fellow-student of Mr. Lowell in 1836-38, and an intimate friend ever since, and to one who is not familiar with Mr. Lowell's life, this article will serve as a delightful introduction. Several pages of the sketch are devoted to an account of Mr. Lowell's life at Harvard, his connections with the college papers and college societies, with lioeral quotations from some of his collegiate poems. Many hitherto unpublished bits of anecdote are interspersed and as a consequence Mr. Hale's article is a reminiscent sketch worth...
...five remaining sketches and descriptions, "Into the Dark" and "The Lighthouse of Villefranche" seem to us to be the best. The former exhibits an energy and vividness in direct contrast with its author's other sketch in the number, "Old Sam," being as it is a portrayal of the thoughts and sufferings of a disappointed lover about to commit suicide. "The Lighthouse of Villefanche" has a strength of diction which is well-suited to the dramatic scenes which the sketch portrays...
...those who are at all familiar with Mr. Morris' life and work, this paper will be of interest as a vivid and picturesque account of the friend of Swinburne and Rossetti; and to those who do not know William Morris, we would recommend a careful perusal of this excellent sketch of Mr. Lovett...