Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...Childhood in Greek and Roman Literature," by Horace E. Scudder; and a paper by Richard Grant White on "The H Malady in England." Two pictures of New England life-"A Salem Dame School," and "Winter Days," are of interest; and these, with a short story by Frank R. Stockton; poetry of a Christmas character, and the usual Contributors' Club, complete a number of unusual interest. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston...
...July Manhattan will have a humorous short story, "Plain Fishing," by Frank R. Stockton, the author of that amusing sketch, the "Lady of the Tiger?" A biographical and critical paper will appear on the Earl of Dufferin, written by J. L. Whittle, the earl's in intimate friend, and one of the staff of the Lord Chancellor of England. J. Parker Norris, so well known as a Shakespearean scholar and collector, is not likely to be lacking in a reverence for Shakespeare, and yet, in discussing the question, "Shall we open Shakespeare's Grave?" he did not hesitate to argue...
Among the contributors to the May Century, we find Julian Hawthorne, Henry James, Charles Waldstein, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, John Burroughs, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, Philip Bourke Marston, George W. Cable, Robert Grant, Austin Dobson, H. H., Frank Stockton, Edmund Gosse, Thomas Hughes, Christina Rossetti, Andrew Lang, and R. W. Gilder. The mere mention of these names is sufficient to show the interest of the number. Henry James' new sketch is certainly an international one, if its situation in London and its reference to almost every one of the larger American cities can make it such ; still it is, like...