Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the book reviews are two which will be of interest to Harvard men-one on Professor Toy's recently published "Jndaism and Christianity," the other upon Professor James's "Principles of Psychology." Professor Toy's work is a sketch of the progress of thought from Old Testament to New Testament, and the criticism of it is decidedly favorable, although the reviewer thinks that Professor Toy has an excessive regard for the theory of development and exhibits too much subjective criticism. "Professor James's work," says the critic, "is rich and living,- a book in which a generous nature breaks...
Diodorus gives the first connected sketch of his life and character. Plutarch's account is the most complete, Diogenes' being shorter and inferior...
Greenough White '84 has published a "Sketch of the Philosophy of American Literature...
...Duffield's sketch of Sir John Suckling, one of the wits of the Elizabethan age, is sprightly and vivacious. The delectable bits of contemporary gossip, anecdote, and biography have all been culled and the result is a literary morsel appetizing to the lover of Herrick and kindred spirits, among whom Suckling holds a high rank...
...Harvard Reaction" is a fairly clever sketch of the evolution of the typical Harvard junior, food of sports and the festal rites of Bloody Monday, from the chrysalis of the theorizing and dreaming sub-freshman...