Word: teller
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...literature in point of literary skill. All of these have something to relate, and the interest of the reader is claimed at the very start and kept to the end. The writers do not indulge in fine writing or unusual phrases but take the sensible course of the story-teller who is interested in his plot for itself and not for the opportunity of showing his knack as a prose artist...
...whole interesting matter. Decidedly the best things in the number are "Roundeles upon Occasions," which have a good deal of imagination and flow, by Robert J. Collier; and "The Special Officer of Station Two," by G. H. Scull. Several shorter bits of verse are rather commonplace and insignificant. "The Teller of Tales," by R. T. Fisher begins very well but leads up to nothing and falls flat. The remaining articles are: Editorials, "Come and Gone," "Sympathy," by F. K. Knowles; College Kodaks, "My Neighbor," by H. M. Adams; "A Memory," by J. F. Brice; "The Perplexity of Quarterback Dixie...
...Hour," the new Boston weekly, shows that the miniature magaazine fad is still rampant. The little paper is a purely local affair with a considerable amount of purpose, if one may judge from the first number. Taverner, late of the Boston Post, is assisted by a Booktaster, a Story-teller, a Gossip, a Reformer, a Playgoer, and a Diletante. Beside these regular departments, Number One contains an article by Margaret Deland and poems by Louise Chandler Moulton and Marguerite Merington...
...Stevenson was not a novelist, he might have given us a dramatic scene of the first rank. He has never come near the dynamic quality which appears in the dramatic scenes of great novels, except in the meeting between David and Alan in "Kidnapped." He was an admirable story teller. He never made digressions; he went into an analysis of his characters; and he had no theories of life to set forth. There is often a lack of unity in his stories, but this is probably due to his failing health. "Kidnapped" and "David Balfour" are clearly the best...
...Many of the old soldiers are in urgent need of assistance. - (a). Service in the army was disastrous to their health. - (b) They were poorly paid and paid in depreciated currency. Teller in Cong. Record June 23, 1890. - (c) The end of the war found the soldiers unfitted for peaceful pursuits. - d) For these reasons they have been unable to provide for their...