Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been much before the public of late. Mr. Lowell continues his articles on travel in Japan. Perhaps the most valuable contribution to the number is Francis Parkman's first paper on the "Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia," an historical study of much importance,-with an incidental sketch of the Wentworth House, at New Castle, Maine, which is very charming. Miss Agnes Repplier, in an amusing and thoughtful paper, called "Pleasure: A Heresy," appeals not for more cultivation in life, but for a recognized habit of enjoyment. The article is full of good-natured banter at the expense...
...feature of the March number of the Cosmopolitan is "The Story of a War Correspondent's Life" by Frederick Villiers. It is a vivid sketch of the author's experiences on various battle fields, illustrated with his own drawings. An interesting article which will appeal to all lovers of the play is "Beauty on the French Stage" by Edward Mahe, a vivacious description of the more charming of the French actresses. An excellent article on Milwaukee is that entitled "The Cream City" by Capt. Charles King. The principle stories of the number are "Professor Ezekiel Harkinson's Plan" by Henry...
...Writer for February is an interesting sketch of George E. Woodberry, Harvard '77, already one of the most widely known of young American literary men. In college he was an editor of the Advocate, to which he contributed some of his first poems. After graduation he was twice called to fill a chair in the University of Nebraska, but in 1882 he returned to his home at Beverly. Between this time and 1885 appeared his "History of Wood Engraving;" an edition of the "North Shore Watch;" and his life of "Edgar Allan Poe." In 1885 and again...
...number contains two other prose contributions, both of them very short: "My Unknown Foe" is somewhat turgid; the "Hungry Sandwich Man" is an outline descriptive sketch...
Fiction is out in full array; Mrs. Burton Harrison contributes "Penelope's Swains"; Joel Chandler Harris writes a dialect story called "Balaam and his Master," and Mary E. Wilkins a sketch "Emma...