Word: workmanship
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...half of that is Tennyson's. The same Writer's "After a Little While" has in its careful workmanship a great advantage over the unrhymed productions of Mr. B. P. Clark and Mr. Boyden. These gentlemen should realize that free verse is not an easy way out of the bondage of fixed metres, but requires an even finer ear for rhythm, and should compensate for the absence of regularity of account and rhyme by still subtler musical' effects. What they give us is rather vague prose, spoiled by inversions. Mr. Denison's "Sonnet" has a good tenth line spoiled...
...remaining stories are simpler and more sincere. Despite rather cruder workmanship, Mr. Blaine produces an effective climax with a very timely setting. "The Story of Old Panama" is highly colored, remote, and romantic...
...though, as we say in "Composition," courses, conspicuous more for "elegance than force." "When the Suspenders Came Off," a seasonal sketch, by Mr. Ben Sion Trynin, is the largest piece of fiction in this Monthly. It has the makings of a good story, but it is rather rough in workmanship and not always of crystal clearness. The bit of verse following, "From a Warm Room," one is uncertain whether to take seriously or humorously. After this come the "Glimpses," of Paris and of Boston respectively. The former--"Paris: Under a Bridge"--is very good description, except that the writer, with...
Specimens of Gothic Workmanship...
...three plays are exceptional in their workmanship, move briskly and reasonably to their appointed climaxes, and present novel situations in an original treatment...