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...done, is, on account of lack of time, never fully accomplished. For instance, English viii. treats of the English literature of the present century, but lack of time has made it impossible for any mention to be made of such writers as Tennyson, Longfellow, Browning, George Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens, Henry James, Jr., Emerson and Arnold. I give these names (many more, of course, could be added) merely to show how far short of what it should be, English viii. must always be, so long as only one hour a week is given it. Certainly the objection cannot be raised that...
...examination in English 5, two subjects will be taken from each of the following works: Thackeray's Pendennis, Sumner's Social Classes, Addison, in English men of Letters series, Dobson's essays of the 18th Century, and George Eliot's poems...
...Briggs gives one of his lectures for sophomores in narrative composition today, at 11 A. M. The subject is: "Movement in Narrative," as illustrated by the writings of Scott, Thackeray and others...
...THURSDAY.Narrative Composition. (Course for sophomores.) Special subject: Movement in Narrative, as illustrated by Scott, Thackeray, and others. Mr. Briggs. Sever...
...Thackeray made most of his money out of his lectures. For a long time he found it impossible to "place" " Barry Lyndon," which he always declared to be his masterpiece, and which only began to be appreciated after his death, and the earlier numbers of "Vanity Fair" excited little attention. In the last years of his life Thackeray told a friend of mine that he had never made as much as L5000 by any book he had ever written...