Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Musset of eighteen, proud and impertinent, was the author of his "Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie," published in 1830. But he was only an untrained schoolboy when he wrote his "Cantique Romantique...
March 13th, 1820, the date of the publication of the "Meditations," is the birthday of modern French poetry. We shall try to characterize Lamartine's poetry by taking up successively, the influences which acted upon the author, his particular state of mind, the novelty of his work and his influence upon French literature...
...three shorter articles, "Sans Adieu," by T. S. Hardy '99, is easily the best. This sketch deals intelligently and feelingly with the topic about which ninety-five per cent. of modern French novels are written. R. C. Bolling 1900, the author of "In Alien Earth," has proved that a short story may be on the subject of water-rotted corpses without being essentially morbid. Somehow or other "The Disappointment of Lord Hartleigh," by E. W. S. Pickhardt '98, with all its facility, fails to interest...
...Remember the other person" and "Lean on your subject" are the last two precepts. The author acknowledges that he has passed by "a whole class of helpful influences" and has "assumed that our cultivation in English is to be effected by naked volition and a kind of dead lift." He recommends him who would speak or write well to "live in the society of good speakers and writers, "for the society of the greatest writers is open to the most secluded...
...delicate subject is treated strongly and sensible in "From Either Side." "Of Passing Moment" is a a dry little sketch of a typical college goody. "Tomasso's Triumph" over his own hot Italian blood is bright and fluent. A new field has been opened by the author of "An Unclean Hand of Providence," who describes an incident on the "long, low whalebacks (the lake men call them 'pigs')" which ply the Great Lakes...