Word: well-chosen
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...designed. The aim throughout is to explain, without needless formality, the difficulties met by instructors in English A, and the methods used to obviate them. In the introductory chapter, the nature and mechanics of the course are briefly described. Common faults and their treatment are then taken up, with well-chosen examples for reference. Here the freedom of the book from the usual wearisome repetition of rules and stock sentences is particularly noticeable...
Under the rather un suggestive title, "A Reconciliation," F. R. Dickinson has contributed a story of life in a Canadian lumber -camp. The setting of the story is well-chosen and the characters are fairly well delineated. The dialect, however, is crude, and the full dramatic possibilities of the final scene are not realized. "The Sea," by a. P. Wadsworth, is an imperfect sketch of a very common place type. In "Uncle Paul," William James, Jr., has strung three incidents, not closely related, into a connected story. "The Hum-Drum Company," by F. R. DuBois, is out of the ordinary...
...Sanskrit library consists at present of about five hundred well-chosen volumes. Soon there will be very large accessions, which have, come partly from Mr. Warren, and partly from Dr. Fitzedward hall of Marlesford, England, who as a long resident of India and a Professor of Sanskrit at Benares, acquired many rare and ancient books...
...well-chosen words, President Eliot thanked the commissioners on behalf of the club for coming to Cambridge and giving the students an opportunity of becoming familiar with the work of the commission...
...Dodge's sketch of Benvenuto Cellini presents vividly some of the characteristic traits of that wonderful man whose history people are never tired of hearing. The writer's style is, it is almost needless to say, pure and vivacious. Well-chosen anecdotes of Benvenuto's life, interspersed with sagacious criticism, make this piece of character study extremely interesting...