Word: tales
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Tale," is far above its author's usual work, and is distinctly forcible and exciting...
...Story of a New England Parish in the Days of the Province" is however so quaint as to arouse universal interest. The remaining historical article, a "Biographical By-path through Early New England History," is an unpretentious, half-gossipy tale...
...Richard Harding Davis once more appears after a short story. And here again we meet a friend, Mr. Hefty Burke - of masquerade ball fame - but although the story is undeniably interesting and entertaining, it is not to be compared with Mr. Davis's best work. It is an impossible tale and after finishing it, one gets back and says "It's good but it's absurd...
...Conan Doyle, who made his first appearance before American Magazine readers some months ago as the author of a marvellously ghostly tale called "Lot No. 249," reappears with the first chapters of a novel entitled "The Refugees...
...hands of the monks, namely. "The Gleeman's Song." "The Fight at Frimsburg," and "Beowulf," and they are the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry. 'The Fight at Frimsburg' is short but alive with the fire of war, and the description of battles. Beowulf, however, is a long and thrilling tale, and told with Homeric simplicity. A deep fatalism broods over the poem, but it is counteracted by a certain manliness. The poem was composed almost wholly by one man and with one definite aim in view. Two destinct strains are felt throughout, one military, one of the sea. Always...