Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three stories form the bulk of the number. G. H. Scull '98 has one of his strong but ugly Western sketches, entitled "A Little Turn from the Road." The story is characteristically vivid. A spark of sentiment shines throngh the drizzle of the weather and the unpleasantness of the characters. In the same vein, but with decidely more charm and less intenseness, is "An Emigration in the West," by a new contributor to the "Advocate," H. Sayre...
...only other noticeable contribution is a vivid little sketch of praisworthy simplicity by H. M. Rideout...
...simply and naturally to the only possible conclusion. A sonnet, "Spiritus Victus Amore," is the kind of a poem one of which is almost sure to turn up in every number; it reads along smoothly enough and does not mean anything in particular. G. H. Scull contributes a rather vivid sketch of life on the Banks suggested perhaps by Kipling's serial. The "Point of View" is a fairly interesting rather too cleverly written monologue about the prize fight. These, with two poeme and a sketch, complete the number...
...current number of the Advocate, out today, contains matter of a creditable and interesting nature. The poetry is unusually good. Perhaps the best of the short poems is "Through the Mist," by Walter Winsor,- a pleasing and vivid description. "A Song of June," by R. T. Fisher is a charming bit of rhyme, although the subject has long been a well-worn one. "Atlantis," a more ambitious effort by J. F. Brice, is certainly creditable, and would be very good but for its occasional vagaries of metre...
...passing of a forgotten book entitled "The To-morrow of Death," from the French of one Louis Figuier, of Pope's translation of the Iliad, of translations from George Sand, Authors' Classical Dictionary, the novels of Henry Kingsley, and many another volume which had contributed to a complex yet vivid recollection of this distant library...