Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...striking about the book, coming from the President of the oldest American university, is that his field of speculation and interest is so much larger than the mere field of education. Fifty years ago such a book would have been a narrow if not sectarian performance; today the essayist is no mere educator, but a man of the world, an administrator, the executive, representative head of a corporation so important, so closely connected with the life of the country, as to make him a public character; a man whose function it is to speak, not merely for Harvard University...
...Religious Union is to be congratulated on securing for the first of its series of lectures, so distinguished a man as Mr. John Fiske. Mr. Fiske's reputation as an essayist in both historical and philosophical fields is a guarantee that whatever he has to say on so interesting a subject a subject as "The Mystery of Evil" will be decidedly worth hearing...
...writer of memoirs, magazine articles and an essayist, De Quincey was one of the princes of English literature. He was of an intellectual turn of mind and resolved to see the world with his own and not with other's eyes. To earn his daily bread, he was compelled to write what would bring him immediate returns. Thus his literary activity was determined by his financial condition and his first writings were fugitive magazine articles which won for him the greater part of his fame...
...Road Horses" is a clever intermixture of the jockey, the traveller, and the essayist. "Over the Teacups," is not as good as usual. The historian of them cannot keep his hand away from the more familiar characters that in other days figured in the "Autocrat," the "Poet," and the "Professor." James Jeffrey Roche gives a poem "At Sea," evidently suggested by the death of his brother in the Samoan hurricane...
...often and justly indulges in. "The Doctrine of States' Rights" is advocated by Jeff. Davis. Erastus Wiman writes on "British Capital in the United States." Rev. Julius H. Ward discusses the "American Bishops of Today" and Ouida writes on Shelley in a trenchant style, which she adopts as an essayist and is so different from her romance manner. The remainder of the number is filled with the usual notes and comments in small type, the best of which is "Is Suicide...