Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Discouragement of Horace Tennant," Mr. Cohen can truthfully be said to have turned his literary shovel to virgin soil, although what he has unearthed is of rather a peculiar nature. After a careful perusal, we should call it a sketch with most (but not all) of the characteristics of a story; a sketch, in which there are delineations of three distinct characters,- one Horace Tennant, a Harvard graduate, cultivated and cynical, the well-springs of whose enthusiasm are not, however, entirely dried up, returning to his Texas home after an absence of four years-secondly, a Texas girl, plump...
...Wail from Below" is a somewhat bizarre short sketch of a being who seems somewhat troubled in his upper story...
...Uncle Kim" is a careful and praiseworthy sketch of a certain type of man, old and whimsical. peculiar to the small villages of New England, and there are several original touches in Mr. Cummings' description which are attractive...
...Limp One" by Kenneth Brown is unique, to say the least. It is a fantastic sketch of physiology class of ghouls, the "limp one" being what Is familiarly known in medical parlance as a stiff." A number of "little moonbeams" are permitted to creep into the room and they form the medium through which the story is told. The style of the sketch is that of one of Anderson's fairy stories with a lack of the latter's delicacy of expression, one noticeable defect being the constant repetition of the expression "little moonbeams...
...Louisa Muhlbach pictured in a more romantic manner in "Henry VIII and his Court." It is an episode is the great queen's life which is interesting even to the most indifferent student of history. It was Sir Thomas Seymour whom Elizabeth loved, and, as the author of this sketch puts it, "In her love for him she came near wrecking her happiness for his sake, and the sorrowful ordeal dried up all the freshness of her nature...