Word: sweet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...number is unusually rich in fiction. Besides good installments of "Sweet Bells Out of Tune" and "Benefits Forgot" there are three or four interesting short stories, The Balcony Stories" the best of which is "The Miracle Chapel," "The Professor's Aberration" and others. A very interesting article is "Stray Leaves from a Whaleman's Log"; it is a collection of whaling stories with a description of the general methods of whaling. An article worthy of the attention of everyone is "A Voice of Russia" by Pierre Botkine, the secretary of the Russian Legation at Washington. In a few words...
Those who have had the rare good fortune to meet with this bird in the summer home say that is love - song is a delightful bit of bird melody, sweet and tender but with a wild plaintive ess which makes it peculiarly attractive, though it is delivered in such low tones that the listener must bevery close to the bird to hear...
...winter song is much more vigorous, but as the birds seldom sing the song is not well known. Our present visitors have uttered no sound but a rather plain. live chirp and a wild though sweet call note...
...Sweet Heart, My Own Sweet Heart" DeKoren assisted by A. W. Thayer...
...most interesting things in the number is the first installment of "Benefits Forgot." It is the long-heralded posthumous novel of Walcott Balestier, who died before he could keep the promises of literary greatness which he made. And more continued fiction is found in Mrs. Harrison's "Sweet Bells out of Tune...