Word: tales
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is great difficulty in obtaining a sufficient number of copies of "The Winter's Tale," which is now being read in English...
...young student becomes interested in Socialism, then implicated in its worst form, and draws down in his ruin a noble but deluded woman, is in itself extraordinarily well done. But when we add to this the extraordinary turn which the narration takes in the course of the doctor's tale, in which we learn how the two victims of the infernal plot become also the victims of the theories of science and surgery, the imaginative faculty that evolved this story assumes very extraordinary proportions. This article is noticeable in more ways than this. The perfect balance between its various parts...
...Dishonesty Bounn" is fairly amusing. It is labored in parts and the whole makes one ask whether the writer might not have told the whole allegory in shorter words. Condensation would have made the point of the tale stronger and more enjoyable...
...Monsieur le Cure" is a pretty little tale with an evident moral. It deserves to be read because of the good lesson of self-sacrifice which it teaches, a lesson which, in the case of many of us, would not be wasted...
...John Harvard Mystery" is a blood-curdling tale and proves conclusively who it was that committed the vandal act on the John Harvard statue in 1884. It is only another example of the immense power of imagination which the writer possesses. Some book notices and items make up the rest of the paper...