Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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"A Winter's Tale" treats in blank verse an incident which has been previously handled in almost every other conceivable way by the various publications. The caricatures are too broad to be effective.
"The Peasant Rebellion" is a brief sketch of an incident of the serf insurrection of 1525, by Mr. Prescott F. Hall. The description is delicately and pathetically written. There is no poetry in the number. It is completed by the usual Brief, which has at last come down nearly to...
The lecturer said that we are often puzzled when we try to account for the readiness with which we remember certain events which happened long ago, while we entirely forget recent occurrences. A little study shows us that the ease with which any incident is recalled depends on the strength...
The two Daily Themes have as their subjects, "Nahant." and "Conversation." The first, a trifle obscure in the beginning, is purely descriptive. The second relates an incident in a horse car. The only verse of this number, "Over the River, lines in a sentimental vein. A book review and the...
Rev. William Lawrence preached at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his text from John xx. 27-29. He said that every age has its own appropriate character, but to no age since the resurrection has the character of Thomas appealed as it does to this. Thomas was a doubting...