Word: stylistics
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...History of Art,* now being published in English by Harper. The third volume, on Renaissance Art, has come from the press, preceded by Ancient and Medieval, and to be followed by Modern. The books are not easy to read, but they repay a little delving. Faure is a brilliant stylist, his word-stream brimming with metaphor and colorful imagery, always intent upon inner meaning, and emotional overtones, so that his writing is obscure to those who expect mere surface description. But the translation is itself an admirable work of letters. He treats of sculpture and architecture with fair attention...
...Brien's story of his visit among the child-like cannibals in the vale of Atuona, under the peak of Temotiu, has already won rank as a classic among books of travel. Although its author will never be held a great stylist, he is supremely readable. What is more important, he has the power to make his reader see the scenes which he describes so colorfully and know the quaint characters that live between his pages...
...meeting of the Graduate Club in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House last night. Professor Henry Van Dyke of Princeton delivered a very interesting lecture, on "Robert Louis Stevenson." Professor Van Dyke spoke of Stevenson as a stylist, a constructor of stories and as a moralist. He mentioned Stevenson's early ambition to become a writer and the desperate real with which he worked towards that end. "The lesson of Stevenson's life," he said, "is that it is a fine thing to be brave." Professor Van Dyke, in speaking of the precision in the choice of words which...
...quite surprised, however, to see nothing of Cardinal Newman's on the shelves. Think what we may of his opinions, hardly any one will deny that he is unsurpassed as a stylist. For my part, it seems to me that every man eager to be "modern" in the best sense of the word, should know, at the least, what Newman's opinions...