Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Cairo." It is a highly entertaining little volume, being a short series of pen sketches written after a considerable sojourn in Egypt. These who are at all familiar with Mr. Fullerton's work will recognize at once in those vivid and picturesque sketches the charming personality of the writer: while to those unacquainted with the author and his writing, the sketches cannot but prove of more than ordinary interest and profit. The scholarly side of Mr. Fullerton's character shows in the chapters on Egyptian religion where of Mr. Fullerton's researches will have a very considerable value...
...competitor appears to deserve the prize, it may be withheld. The versions must be deposited with the Dean before the first of May, 1892. They must be written under an assumed name, and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing both the assumed and the real name of the writer...
...James Martineau, the well-known teacher and writer, has a wonderful personal influence. The mere sight of him seems to make a man half afraid but at the same time better. This latent power for good that seems to be in some men is almost entirely unconscious. A light and strength is shed from them continually and is the overflow of their own full store. That this is unconscious is almost an indispensable condition, since self-consciousness only acts as a check on power, and clouds the brightness that might be shining if this were resolutely conquered...
...with the Dean of Harvard College on or before Commencement, 1892. All other dissertations for these prizes must be deposited with the Dean of Harvard College on or before the first of November, 1892. On the title-page must be written an assumed name and a statement of the writer's standing. - i.e., whether he is a graduate or an undergraduate; if an undergraduate, to what class he belongs and to what department of the University. Under cover with the dissertation must be sent a sealed letter containing the true name of the writer, and superscribed with his assumed name...
...Magazine opens with an interesting study of Canadian journalism by Walter Blackburn Harte. It is an article that will attract journalists and laymen in every corner of America, and it will appeal to the former more especially from the fact that the writer is a newspaper man and knows the difficulties of the craft from the inside. Mr. Hart's remarks, "In a Corner at Dodsley's," on the tendencies of contemporary literature to dispense altogether with literary men, are animated and amusing. Mr. Harte says: "The days of literary men in literature is over. It is now the triumphal...