Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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E.GORDON PARKER, A. M., 16 Dunster Hall.SANDERS THEATRE, Feb. 2, at 8 p. m. John Fox, Jr., of Kentucky, author of "The Kentuckians," "A Cumberland Vendetta," "Hell fer Sartain...
...Tuesday evenings during February, March and April, Mr. Copeland will give a course of lectures, open only to members of the University, on the English Novelists. The lectures will be both biographical and critical, and on each evening some passages will read from the author under discussion. Mr. Copeland will trace the resemblances between the different novelists and show how far the later ones are indebted to the earlier, but at the same time he will endeavor to make the treatment of each novelist complete and interesting of itself for the benefit of men who do not attend regularly. Sets...
...Newton 1 G., is the author of "The Recent Crisis in India," a political and historical essay of a good deal of weight. He seems to be a master of his subject and of the historical style of Macaulay. The paragraphing in particular reminds one of Macaulay's rhetorical methods...
...When Love Laughs," by Tom Hall. Herrick and Co., New York. This dainty little volume contains verses in a light vein, intended, as the author says, for busy people who have not the time to create fancies for themselves. If the purpose alone be considered, the book might be called successful. The verses are written in an offhand manner, with sometimes careless metre. The point usually turns on some modern "gag," but some of the verses touch a serious chord, while many have a note of sweetness...
...author of WHEN HEARTS ARE TRUMPS...