Word: treating
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...twenty-four volumes called "A History of All Nations," which is now in press, to be published by Lea Brothers and Company, of Philadelphia, this summer. The work is a translation with additions of the "Allgemeine Weltgeschichte" originally published in Berlin about fourteen years ago. The first twenty volumes treat the history of the Old World from the earliest times down to 1900, and are by distinguished German scholars, such as Justi, Herzberg, Pflugk-Harttung, Philippson, Prutz and Flathe. The next three volumes, on the History of America, are contributed by Professor John Fiske of Cambridge, and the last volume...
...current number of the Lampoon must not be taken too seriously. There is already a drowsiness about the more pretentious contributions which the shorter bits, though brighter, do not dispel. The leading editorial, though the point is well concealed, gives the impression of an attempt to treat a question of real interest in light vein, and is in this way a commendable departure from the conventional rambling vehicle for chance flashes of wit. But the treatment is unfortunately inconclusive, and the writer, apparently aware of this, follows the good old Lampoon fashion and introduces an allusion to recent hour exams...
...subject of the Christian Minister's Relations to Social Questions. The lectures of the first hour each day will for the most part deal with economic questions related to the subject; those of the second hour with ethical and theological topics; while the lectures of the third hour will treat mainly of practical suggestions for social amelioration and reform." Excursions will be conducted during the session to the municipal and voluntary charitable institutions of Boston and to the Reformatory Prison at Concord...
...Gandillot, M. Alexandre Bisson, and M. Courteline. Of these, Courteline seems to have the most talent. He is a writer of considerable power, with a copious and spontaneous wit. The military officer is one of his stock characters, but he has not the tact, according to M. Deschamps, to treat him with the dignity due him as the protector of his country. "Les Gaietes de l'Escadron" is an excellent parody -- albeit full of philosophy--on the less attractive sides of military life. "Le Train de 8:47," "Boubonroche," and other similar works, belong to the same category and show...
...short story one may be didactic and yet not wearisome, and then the short story can pose problems and leave them unanswered. Now the novelists George Sand Dickens and Thackeray not only stated problems, but also answered them. The modern method of the short story, however, is to treat the matter in such an ambiguous manner, that two opposing answers may be possible. Again, a short story writer always asks his readers to take a great deal for granted, which if he were a novelist he might have to spend several chapters in explaining. For aesthetic effects also...