Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...College seventy years ago. Mr. Artemas Bowers Muzzey, himself a '24 man, tells of the old professors - their peculiarities and methods. And the picture which he draws for us of the modus vivendi of 1820-24, so opposite in many things to that of the present day, is charmingly vivid...
...Battle with Prejudice" is one of the best pieces of prose in the number, although it is below the usual standard of its author's work. As a character-sketch it is fairly vivid, although lacking a certain clearness of portraiture which is almost always a characteristic of its author's work in this line...
...Coming of the Storm" is a vivid description in verse of the out-break of a tempest over the ocean and "When Silvia Sings" is a rondeau which shows some of the true Dobsonian grace...
...whole, the most artistic piece of work. This, as all of the productions of its author's have been, is characterized by a simple vigor of expression, a boldness in conception of plot, and an excellent sense of the fitness of things. Mr. Flandrau excels rather in vivid descriptions than in character delineations, and in the sketch under discussion the descriptive portions are the best parts, for neither the hero nor the heroine of the sketch stand out very clearly and the little conversation that there is is not particularly good...
...literary work, has just issued his first book, entitled "In Cairo." It is a highly entertaining little volume, being a short series of pen sketches written after a considerable sojourn in Egypt. These who are at all familiar with Mr. Fullerton's work will recognize at once in those vivid and picturesque sketches the charming personality of the writer: while to those unacquainted with the author and his writing, the sketches cannot but prove of more than ordinary interest and profit. The scholarly side of Mr. Fullerton's character shows in the chapters on Egyptian religion where of Mr. Fullerton...