Word: young
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Henry Bourland: The Passing of the Cavalier," a novel by Albert E> Hancock, Ph.D., '97, will be issued during the coming spring by the Macmillan Company. The book deals with the life of the Southern aristocracy, during the reconstruction period which followed the Civil War. The hero, a young Virginia planter of Bourbon stock, enlists in the Confederate army, and after the surrender at Appomattox returns home, still unbeaten in spirit, with the hope of restoring the fortunes of his house. The author, though a northerner always takes the point of view of the southern cavalier, and thus presents...
...number contains three poems: A sonnet; a somewhat longer poem called "The Death Chant of the Viking"; and a short bit of literary appreciation--"On a Little Verse." The remaining contributions are: "His Letter," by R. W. Ruhl; "The Young Lady," by G. C. St. John; "Dan Dan'lson of the Yadkin Valley," by R. W. Page; and "The Unbeaten Path," by R. W. Child...
...contemporaneous French stage, represented by men still young, such as Paul Hervieu, Maurice Donnay, Francois de Curel, Brieux and Rostand, is still under the influence and the direction of the masters of yesterday...
Emile Augier (1820-1869), inaugurated in 1849, with the comedy he named "Gabrielle," a teaching which he continued for more than thirty years, first blaming "mesalliences" based on vanity and ridiculing those young men who put too much poetry in marriage, and old men who wed very young wives. Emile Augier has studied Society at large, moving in all spheres,--aristocracy, bourgeoisie, and the people. His moral comedies constitute a genuine social study. The principal disciple of Augier is now M. Brieux, to whom we can add M. F. de Curel...
...corner of the earth or illumine any great human problem. In this way many readers take up Mrs. Wilkins for New England scenes, J. M. Barrie for Scotch peasant life or Stephen Crane for the field of battle. On the whole the short story offers greater opportunities for a young writer than the novel. In the short story one may be didactic and yet not wearisome, and then the short story can pose problems and leave them unanswered. Now the novelists George Sand Dickens and Thackeray not only stated problems, but also answered them. The modern method of the short...