Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Prosper Bender's "Winters in Quebec" is a vivid sketch of winter life in the old Canadian city, in marked contrast to our anomalous season...
...second evening will include a thorough elucidation of the momentous Eastern Question, with the latest complications threatening the peace of Europe, followed by a vivid delineation of the great battles of the Crimean War of 1854-5, the whole illustrated by large colored maps painted expressly for this series...
...more elaborate. The idea of "Misericordia," is good and the style is clear and well-worded, but the brevity and disjointedness of the treatment detract much from the general effect of the story. Of a very different style is the story of "A Crime," from the French. It is vivid and picturesque, though the plot-a dream of a man who contemplated murder-is too horrible to be pleasant. The best article in the number is "Is in a Seaport Town." The description of the old decaying seaport town is charmingly written. The verse of the number consists...
...after wards accused of holding treasonable correspondence with Sir Henry Clinton commander of the British forces in New York. This charge Mr. Loring seeks to refute. "The Site of Old Fort Massachusetts" and "A Trip from New York to Niagara in 1829" are both exceedingly vivid and interesting contributions, the latter being taken from the diary of the famous author and journalist, Colonel William Leete Stone, who died in 1844. "An Unpublished Letter of John Adams" and "A Boston Newspaper of the Revolution" speak for themselves and the rest of the number is well worth a perusal. The book notices...
...geographer of that time, Joannes Bloev, as author. The "Atlas Hovus is full of maps, all beautifully colored by hand and frequently surrounded by emblematic devices, together with scenes in the country represented. The unknown regions of the world are populated by horrid monsters creatures of the author's vivid imagination. On many of the maps animals are pictured supposed to show the species by which the region is especially characterized. On the plate representing New England, what is now Connecticut is occupied by two sickly rabbits, Western New York is given up to deer and on the St. Lawrence...