Word: vein
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Romance of Dorothy Shirley" is a bit of romantic fiction written in a light vein. It is rather a pretty story, but lacks the atmosphere of the Revolutionary days...
...last article "(Re) publicans and (Fair) Sinners" is a story in a much lighter vein than the others. The hero, a scheming politician, goes to the convention at Saratoga, and, at the time when his presence is most needed to strengthen his chance for nomination, yields to the fascinations of a fair conspirator and goes off on an excursion, only to came back too late and find that his rival has secured the coveted prize. The story is fairly well written, but the plot is by no means...
...reality in those waves tossing and tumbling which suggests a wonderful power of description in the writer. An admirable poem on Fate follows this and shows a depth of thought seldom exhibited in college poetry. "Unappreciated Talent" is a Seri-comic story written in a very bright vein and serves to lighten up the solemnity which the preceding articles give the paper...
...dismember the Union. It may be well, however, for those who are prone to criticize Burr too severely without ever having heard his side of the story set forth in the best possible shape to read "A Study of Aaron Burr." A strong plea, written in an ironical vein, is urged for the limitation of vast individual fortunes by Mr. W. W. Dickinson in the "Apothosis of the Plutocrat." It consists in part of an attack upon Professor Sumner's of Yale new book "what Social Classes owe to each Other," a very terse sketch of the position...
...hills up here in our bleak New England during the Revolution as it was in the warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this, and tells a world of woe in a very few words. "Around Judith," an account in the happiest vein of the recent Harvard trip down to New York on board the Fall River boat, cannot fail to amuse every one who reads. There is not a dull line in it and there are not a few passages that fairly dance with vividness. When one learns, as I happened to to-day, that...