Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...incidentally described. Mr. Herrick's story, "Optimaet Pessima" is a powerful effort. A vagueness of meaning seems at first to characterize the piece, but the uncertainty disappears as the story advances. The real strength is discovered upon a second reading. There is a delicacy of analysis which shows careful thought. There is a touch of morbidness in the story, but as it belongs wholly to the character that is being studied, we should not wish to have it removed...
...antithesis in the bitter language of the soul that has found nothing but defeat in this world and that looks beyond earth for some sign of hope, and in the resignation of that other soul that finds in every triumph and defeat the fulfilment of its own destiny. The thought is, perhaps, somewhat too deeply hidden by the words, but we do not begrudge the effort to unravel it. Mr. Bates's poem "The Sleeper," develops an original idea. The metre chimes well with the sentiment of the tale; the lines convey the folly and the utter hopelessness...
...unsuspected turn at the end, would seem shallow. The ins and outs of country churches, however, must have been observed to have been so well portrayed. The essay on Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, though instructive, well written, and displaying in its argument original thought, seems somewhat out of place, in the field which the Advocate has chosen. "Carmen" needs a second reading to be appreciated. The author's conception is delicate; his expression, however, is somewhat obscure, and at times strains after unnatural words. Such compounds as "scorn-enwrapped" will hardly bear close scrutinizing. The remaining poem...
READINGS FROM THE HEBREW PROPHETS.On successive Wednesday evenings, Professor Lyon is giving in Sever 11 a course of public readings from the Hebrew Prophets. Teh passages read will be such as illustrate the style of the prophet and the course of the prophetic thought...
...Thought Transference" is a clear statement of the present condition of the work done by the Society for Psychical Research. The author does not attempt to express personal views on the subject, but lays the facts before the reader and leaves him largely to his own conclusions. The time has come when intelligent men can no longer close their eyes to such questions...