Word: aldrich
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...theory with regard to Custer's movements. The article is followed by a critical review of the campaign by Gen. Fry. Dr. Wier Mitchell has his second instalment of Characteristics and Cole's "Old Masters" series is continued. The poetry of the number is unusually interesting, Mr. Aldrich contributing five short poems...
Besides the above mentioned articles, there is a sheaf of delightful Christmas stories, - "The Christmas Shadrach," by Frank R. Stockton; "A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral," by Thomas Bailey Aldrich; "Wulfy; A Waif," a Christmas sketch from life by Miss Vida D. Scudder, and "The Rapture of Hetty," by Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote, the last dealing with a Christmas dance on the frontier, and a number of general articles. The poetry of the number is of a high order...
...sketch of a bizarre old creature who on being raised to comparative affluence by a legacy of fifty thousand francs, founds an asylum for straw cats. The touches of character sketching are well laid on, although the idea of the thing as a whole is suggestive of T. B. Aldrich's translation from the French of "The Story...
Subject: "Resolved, That the Aldrich Closure Rule ought to be adopted by the Senate...
...appeals not for more cultivation in life, but for a recognized habit of enjoyment. The article is full of good-natured banter at the expense of the self-consciously cultivated persons, who demand from both literature and art, not pleasure, but some serious moral purpose. A review of Mr. Aldrich's new volume of poetry, of one or two French novels, and of Mr. Sargent's Silva of North America, with the usual comment on new books and the Contributors' Club, conclude the number...