Word: tales
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Parker in his "Coming of Isolde" tells in a few words the final tragedy in the old romance of Sir Tristran and his fair mistress, the king's wife. The tale is skillfully told. The whole story of the two lives is faintly hinted at, although nothing but the closing chapter of that story is given. It would be difficult to find an unnecessary word in the last two pages. Mr. Dodge's essay, "What is a Sonnet?" is the best piece of work in this number of the Monthly. The writer examines the various forms in which the sonnet...
...October number of the Magazine of American History is as bright and interesting as anyone can desire. "The City of the Prince" is the beginning of a romantic tale of the settlers in that part of old Texas which was called "Little Germany." The story gives us a good idea of the immense number of Germans who made their homes in Texas in the middle of this century. It will be continued in the next number. The Hon. George B. Loring contributes an interesting paper entitled "A Vindication of General Samuel Holden Parsons." General Parsons graduated from Harvard...
...triumph and defeat the fulfilment of its own destiny. The thought is, perhaps, somewhat too deeply hidden by the words, but we do not begrudge the effort to unravel it. Mr. Bates's poem "The Sleeper," develops an original idea. The metre chimes well with the sentiment of the tale; the lines convey the folly and the utter hopelessness of the magicians wish to stop the progress of time. The number closes with the charming bit of verse "Vanitas...
...Mystery of the Charles River Dredger" is a fanciful tale of the courtships and marriage of a Harvard graduate and an Annex maid. The writer has put into words the doubts and questions which have been floating in many of our brains in regard to the effect of too much learning on the fair sex. The story is well told but we wish that some of the incongruities which mar its effect had been avoided. The "Religio Medici of Sir Thomas Browne" is a short sketch of the character and opinions of a strange figure of the 16th century...
Copies of "The Winter's Tale" for English 2 may be obtained at Couples, Upham and Co.'s, corner of School and Washington streets...