Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bowdoin Prize Dissertation on the "Present Stage of the Homeric Question" was read in Sever 5 last evening by Mr. C. H. Page. After giving a brief sketch of the early history of the question, Mr. Page told how Grote disengaged from the Iliad an Achilleis, representing the earliest form of the poem, and consisting of Books I, VIII, and XI, XXII, of our Iliad. Subsequent scholarship has confirmed Grote's main proposition, while changing considerably the limits of his Achilleis. Within the last decade several eminent German scholars have made a very careful study of the question. Chief among...
...interest ot the student in American History are the two articles, "The Loyalists," and "Early Dorchester"- both profusely illustrated. It is an excellent sketch that Mr. Hannay gives of the exiled "Loyalists," that band of men opposed to the colonies in the Revolutionary war, whose banishment has passed with but scant notice and has evoked very little sympathy, and in whose ranks were included some of the brightest and ablest minds in the thirteen colonies; and the author regrets that they were all banished for he thinks it was a loss to the country. "Early Dorchester," will have a special...
...Four Sketches" possess little merit. Perhaps the sketch of "Oblivious of Narka" is the best of the four although even this does not rise above the dead level of mediocrity. With this possible exception, the sketches seem strained and unnatural, and especially applicable is this criticism to "A Surmise about Happiness...
Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the issue is a half story, half sketch, by Austin Smith, entitled "Moontide." The scene of the events narrated is Boston and its surroundings, the Harvard Bridge and the Charles River, and the very familiarity of the background breeds not a contempt but a pleasure. The sketch-for it is, perhaps, more of a sketch than a story-gives in a few pages a delineation, at once life-like and pleasurable, an architect, poverty-stricken, aristocratic, and fairly intellectual, and of a concomitant fellow-being.- a governess,- with whom the architect eventually falls...
...Second Look Backward" is a more or less pretentious sketch of the aspect of New York and the world in general in 2004 A. D. The "Great Nationalistic Party" is supposed to have united all North and South America and all the world under one government and a National Peace Festival is being held. While the story shows much boldness in design, there is too much of irrelevant and uninteresting in the sketch...