Word: algernon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...means remarkable. The sketch which follows it, "The Race is not always to the Swift" is, 'o our way of thinking, the best contribution to the number. The story is well told working up to a good climax; the oaths are effective and our "pastry - faced" friend, "Algernon. Fitz-Jones" turns out a man. There is a liveliness and swing in the description of the race which is very attractive...
...Sisyphus to Merope," by Algernon Tassin were not so long it would be much improved. The vocabulary is not varied enough to make so extended an enlargement on one theme effective...
...verse of the number consists of but one poem, "A Rainy Day" by Algernon Tassin. It is a difficult poem to criticize, but it certainly shows poetical striving on the part of its author...
...Algernon de Vivier Tassin, The Defence of Lucknow.- Tennyson...
...prurient, as the point of view is from behind a curtain in the young lady's boudoir. There is a rather vivid description of this room given in the first part, but taken as a whole the sketch reminds one of a judicious mixture of Town Topics and Algernon Swinburne...