Word: vivid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...best piece of prose in the number is "A Study of William Morris," by P. M. Lovett. To those who are at all familiar with Mr. Morris' life and work, this paper will be of interest as a vivid and picturesque account of the friend of Swinburne and Rossetti; and to those who do not know William Morris, we would recommend a careful perusal of this excellent sketch of Mr. Lovett...
...University," in which Newnham College is described, and the daily life, plan of work, exercise, etc., mentioned in detail. The author of the article, Miss Field, is more or less of an enthusiast on the subject of college education for women and the result is that her descriptions are vivid in the extreme...
...less ambitious sketches, entitled "Pattes des Mouches," and "The Expected Hour," together with the "College Kodaks," complete the number. "The Expected Hour" is a rather vivid anaiysis of the sensations of a modern novelist, who has all his life wondered how it would feel to die, and who can hardly do himself justice when the hour at length arrives. We are curious to see more from the same...
There have been few stories in recent magazine literature so extraordinary in its plot and so forcible in its vivid descriptions as the late William Douglass O'Connor's "Brazen Android," the concluding portion of which appears in the Atlantic Monthly for May. If the first part of the romance was remarkable, it was at least within the lines in which story tellers are accustomed to confine themselves; but the character introduced in the second part is so inexplicable, and his action in the story so tremendous, that what has seemed but strange hitherto becomes now the merest commonplace...
...this year. The article which Mr. Edwin H. Abbott contributes on "Harvard Clubs" occupies the place of honor and is well worth the perusal of every Harvard man. Mr. Abbott gives some interesting data concerning the Harvard clubs in the various parts of the country and draws a vivid pen picture of the benefits which such associations of cultivated men confer upon communities in the West. "Their meetings and companionship are, of course, full of enjoyment and pleasant community of past associations, but inside of this is the never-absent consciousness of that obligation which rests heavily on every educated...