Word: waverley
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hughes, H J, Brookline, 25 Waverley street...
Gilman, C S, Waverley, Mass...
...Copeland began his final lecture last evening with a brief description of a country library in which he passed much time and read many books before coming to college. Among the volumes of this collection was an early edition of the Waverley novels. Sir Walter, said the speaker, is not to be judged by his heroes and heroines, who are for the most part filled with sawdust rather than blood. Nor are his large and moving pictures of history and famous personages of the past, picturesque and effective though they usually are, to be accounted his most important contribution...
Lecture. What a Man Remembers of the Waverley Novels. Mr. Copeland. Sever...