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Although this may seem a trivial point to discuss at such length, when one considers the importance of the time to play in football games, and the ease with which it could be recorded on the scoring-board, he cannot fall to see some ground for the stand here taken...
...stories, "Tom Morley, Waiter," by Arthur Holden Gilbert, is written in an offhand vein well suited to the subject. The point might have been reached as well in fewer words. Though the plot of "A Spool of Thread" by Forbes Watson, seems a bit trivial, the story is well told, with good detail and imagination. The best part of "The Sea," by A. P. Wadsworth, is the straightforward style in which it is told. A clean setting is made in the fewest possible words and the story is free from interruptions...
...vindicate Turner on the score of truth, although he nowhere maintains that this truth constitutes the essential character of Turner's art, or any other art. But there are he maintains different orders of truths with which the artist may be concerned. There are the more obvious, unessential and trivial truths of nature, and those which are more recondite, fundamental and characteristic. It is the latter and not the former, to which, as he teaches, Turner's art gives expression. These higher orders of visual truths are, however, not those which are commonly perceived. "People commonly," he tells us, "recognize...
...plot consists of four main incidents--the arrival of Hilda Wangel, the approval of the builder's plans, the death of Knut Brovik, and the fall of Solness. It is incoherent and is, throughout, illogical, almost trivial. The crack in the wall, designedly neglected to cause the death of two children and destroy the happiness of half a dozen people, seems too small a peg on which to hang such tragic events. The abrupt and meaningless transition, in the scene between Hilda and Solness in the first act, from church steeples to the kingdom of youth, and back again...
This is a thoroughly characteristic example of Hunt's still life painting, and exhibits his remarkable skill in the use of pure water colors. It shows no trivial elaboration; but is a highly finished and masterly rendering of beautiful natural objects in their charming gradations of light and color...