Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Henry Bartlett Learned read the Bowdoin Prize Dissertation last evening before an audience which comfortably filled Sever 5. The subject was "A Critical Study of the Writings of Matthew Arnold." In opening Mr. Larned gave an interesting sketch of Arnold's life, dwelling particularly on his university days at Oxford under his great father. The speaker then proceeded to a critical estimate of Arnold's works, which he divided into five classes, The writings on English society were first taken up. In them one sees Arnold's critical faculty at its best. Culture was Arnold's god. The Greeks...
...literary part of the number is made up of several short stories of fair merit. The first is a sketch of backwoods life called "The Captain of the Rocket." Some of the descriptive parts are well written but the style of the piece as a whole is a little crude. "Number 749" a matrimonial bureau story, is well written, but would hardly pass as realistic. "Henry Dunster" invests that historic old character with sentiments which do not ordinarily do him credit. "Tom's Story" is effectively told...
...latter was a student at Williams. It is accompanied by an engraving from a full length portrait of Emerson painted about 1859. Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming sketch of the Musee des Archives, with many excellent reproductions of old paintings and prints. The serials by Frank R. Stockton and Amelia E. Barr are continued. Professor Fisher continues his discussion of the Nature and Method of Revelation, and Joseph Jefferson his autobiography. There are also several short stories...
...Cannibal" is rather a curious sketch. To say the least, the story is incoherent, and it is difficult to get at the exact meaning of the author...
...Between Two Worlds" a powerful sketch by M. Wilcox, is suggested a problem of theosophy. Its defect is an unsatisfactory vagueness which is not dispelled by skill in narration...