Word: tales
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...
...Told after Dinner," by John Mack, Jr., the various incidents of the plot are well handled, and the result is a tale more striking and effective than the average. Although the style is far removed from that of Kipling, there is a suggestion that the details of the chief character may have been taken from the works of that author. The remaining two stories, "An Undiscovered Sacrifice," by Felix Norris, and "The Murder," by W. T. Denison, are less interesting. They are of that rather negative merit which characterizes most college fiction, neither very good nor very...
...Hayes will read tonight in Sever 11 among other selections, Longfellow's Sicilian's Tale, "King Robert of Sicily," in "Tales of a Wayside Inn," the Forum scene from "Julius Caesar," and Browning's "Count Gismond...
...Tale of a Wayside Inn," by J. P. Welsh, is longer than the interest of the tale would seem to justify, but the remaining articles of the number are very satisfactory. Two hitherto unknown names appear as the authors of well written stories,-"A Summer Incident," by R. L. Raymond, and "The Exacting Story," by J. W. R., both comparing not unfavorably with the "Fragment of a Modern Tale," by J. Mack, Jr. "The Last Theme," by F. Johnston, is exaggerated, but its cleverness saves this from being objectionable...
Perhaps the best story is Louis How's "A Tale of the San Luis Valley," a cleverly drawn sketch of Mexican life. "The Warning," by John Allyne Gade, though based on a rather trite idea, is redeemed by original and effective treatment...