Word: glamour
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...romance called "Glamour," by the queerly named Meta Orred (Lippincott), has become a prevailing dinner-table topic. Since Poe and Monk Lewis, no writer has had a more powerful command of the gruesome in fiction. The author's real name has not been revealed...
There is something about such work as that of the Prospect Union, which has a peculiar attraction for men of college age and this, too, in a sense distinct from that glamour of false sentiment under which much "slum-work" is carried on. Any idea of condescension is entirely foreign to the spirit of the Prospect Union. It is an association of college students and wage-earners for mutual helpfulness and the benefit derived by the student is not a whit less, if it is not even greater, than that derived by the wage earner. A proof of this...
...truth with which events long since passed and scenes laid in far distant countries were brought before our minds by the mighty pen of the author; in Phedre we meet with events of the times of the ancient Greeks, clothed for most of us as in the mists and glamour of mythology, but here brought into the vivid light of our own times and appealing to us with the force of life itself...