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...ATLANTIC MONTHLY for March, Dr. Holmes definitely opens his " New Portfolio," which is very entertaining. Beside the three serials, there are several papers which are of value to thoughtful readers. The chief of these is a sketch by Clara Barnes Martin, called " The Mother of Turgeneff," which gives a curious account of the early influences which surround the great novelist, and a striking picture of Russian home-life fifty years ago. Two articles, " Time in Shakespeare's Comedies," by Henry A. Clapp, and " The Consolidation of the Colonies," by Brooks Adams, together with a paper called " The Brown-Stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1885 | See Source »

...Russian journal contains an account of a conversation between Turgeneff and some literary friends in which the novelist is reported to have said of Victor Hugo: "In the course of a talk with me on Goethe he expressed the opinion that he couldn't find anything great in the writings of that author. When I drew his attention to the fact," continues Turgeneff, "that 'Wallenstein's Camp' was by Schiller, and not by Goethe, he answered: 'That is all the same thing-Goethe and Schiller, they are fruits of the same tree; and believe me that I know, even without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1884 | See Source »

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