Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Pollard. It is avowedly "an echo from 'The Tatler'," and its quaint common sense and clear powerful style might pass for work of some first rank English linguist of Addison's or Jonson's time. "The Judgment of Ybarra," by L. M. Crosbie, is an unusually vivid and interest-compelling story of the west. In its theme it has a little echo of Kipling's, "The Man Who Would be King," and in treatment something of its vigor. "Timothy Knox, Peddler," a story by G. B. Fernald, is not good, for it lacks all plot and the humor...
Both the prose and poetry in the last number of the Advocate are unusually good. "Over the Border," a story of the Civil War, by Ralph W. Page, contains rapid and vivid narrative and clear character drawing. The rather recklessly free handling of historical characters may be passed over unnoticed in the general interest of the story. "Told in the Telling," by Ezra Kidd, and "The Hunting Song," by L. B. Cummings, are also interesting...
...Hallowe'en," by F. M. Class, is an effective story, giving, in spite of inaccuracies in dialect and description, a sympathetic character sketch of the "old school" southern gentleman. "One of the Crowd," by Richard Inglis, is another character sketch: it seems a little improbable and is not vivid. "Tramping with a Botanist;" describes and mildly caricatures, with a good deal of humor, the adventures and character of an exploring botanist. "The March Inland," by Albert de Roode, written in the form of extracts from a diary, vividly describes the scenes in the American lines about Santiago; one gets...
...excellent editorial on the Union, other editorials on the Advocate's plans for the year, four poems and a number of prose articles make up the first number of the Advocate, which appeared last night. "Morning on the Swamp," by Roy Pier, is a vivid piece of poetical description, marked by simplicity and no little beauty. "Sunlight," another poem,--unsigned--is well and pleasingly phrased. "Summer Songs," by A. D. Ficke, seems rather carelessly put together, and the effect of a number of good lines is offset by commonplace phrasing and halting rhythm; as a whole...
...Midnight Freight," by I. M. Adams, is a story one enjoys, reading. A swift and strong style of narration has made the plot and the characters seem vivid and real. "An Experiment on Deduction," by A. Hollingsworth, is well planned and written. The rest of the prose in the issue is not interesting...