Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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This tasty little volume consists of seven short stories. They are not likely to keep one awake nights with excitement, but are, nevertheless, very entertaining, being (for the most part) quiet rural tales, written in an easy, "chatty" fashion, the pages of which contain many a charming glimpse of home-life. Indeed, the authoress possesses a remarkable faculty of sketching upon the page the pleasant characteristics of New England life, and the stories are the more interesting for the degree to which they appeal to one's own experience. In point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent...
Reporter (salaaming in the most approved fashion). How do you like Cambridge...
...given to some fashion...
...force of fashion could no further...
...pedagogue on the banks of the Po, we are no longer such a necessity to them during the dog-days as their mothers' milk, although in these days of Ridge's "Food for Infants" and competitive examinations for women, this article has gone sadly out of fashion. Any true advocate of progress would blush to remember that he had ever been aught but a bottle-baby...