Word: sketching
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Between Me and the Fireplace," an excellent sketch by Albert H. Nichelson, is unusually vivid for so short a piece, owing to good discrimination in the choice of detail. "Marjorie" is an interesting golf sketch by W. Wadsworth, though perhaps Marjorie's part in the story is somewhat unlikely. "Belknap Inn," by R. W. Child, and "Vanitas Vanitatum," by F. M. Class, are both well told, the former with some descriptive power, the latter with a good insight into the characters which it contains. By far the most original story, however, is "The Bluff of Rogers," by R. W. Ruhl...
...Jones '00. The western tone of the article is enhanced by the rough colloquial style in which it is written. In "Charles Lamb as a Critic," W. Morrow '00, attempts to show Lamb's comparative powers of criticism in different works and subjects. "Before the Wind," a sketch by R. C. Bolling '00, is a vividly drawn picture of a storm...
...spite of the excellent color to "Gabe," by O. F. Cooper '02, one's attention is kept from the story by the count of "dam"s scattered through the sketch. "Lady Barbara's Song," by R. M. Green '02, has a simple lyric note, commendable and desirable...
...story of life in a Canadian lumber -camp. The setting of the story is well-chosen and the characters are fairly well delineated. The dialect, however, is crude, and the full dramatic possibilities of the final scene are not realized. "The Sea," by a. P. Wadsworth, is an imperfect sketch of a very common place type. In "Uncle Paul," William James, Jr., has strung three incidents, not closely related, into a connected story. "The Hum-Drum Company," by F. R. DuBois, is out of the ordinary run, and after the writer once gets started, the story moves easily, needing...
Following is a brief sketch of the plot: Don Julio, having fallen in love with Ismenia, goes to a county fair and is followed by the latter and her maid in disguise. While there the girls flirs with Don Julio and his companions, and win their love a second time. A by-scene in the play is afforded by the abduction of Florimel, daughter of the miller, by Count Otrante; later the miller and his son Bustopha succeed in winning the King's favor, Florimel is found at the home of the count, and the two eventtually fall in love...