Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Daily Themes" treat of a variety of topics, and are all well worth reading. "The Library" gives a possible clue to the success of Yale in athletics." "On the Cars" is an amusing sketch of a "fat fidgety old woman," and "A Beggar," one of the best, is full of pathos...
...politics-among which are the "The People in Government" by H. C. Merwin, "Why our Science Students go to Germany" by S. Sheldon and "A French Bishop of the Fifteenth Century" by F. C. Lowell. Miss Harriet W. Preston continues a series of papers on Roman history with a sketch of Cicero's closing years, entitled "Before the Assassination." There are two short stories, "The King's Cup and Cake" by Sophie May, and "A Dissolving view of Carrick Meagher" by George H. Jessop. Bliss Carman, a recent graduate of Harvard contributes a long poem on "Death in April...
...Duncan contributes an historical sketch, "A Glimpse of Harvard in 1674," in which he describes an incident of the stern discipline, which characterized the rule of the good old Puritan president of the college...
...dawn upon the reader until the end is reached. The enjoyment of the whole is heightened by the skillful way in which the denouement is managed Under Topics of the Day is "Another's Study in Happiness." It is thoroughly ideal, and, to us, somewhat unsatisfactory. The short sketch, "In the Train," by R. W. Atkinson, is one of the brightest bits of the number. Mr. Zinkeisen, in his "Heine's Pictures of Travel," displays an intimate sympathy with the author, as well as an understanding of his moods and surroundings. "The Difference," a continuation of "Is there a Difference...
...early roadway leading up to the citadel. The changes made in the approach in the time of the Romans, the Franks and the Turks were described, as well as the modern way built after the establishment of the Greek kingdom in 1833. The lecture was closed with a historical sketch of the Propylaea in later times, and the changes which it underwent in its transformation into a fortified garrison...