Word: background
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Dates: during 1891-1891
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...plot is very simple - an ordinary love affair, - but it is worked out in exactly the right way. There is nothing unnatural in any of the conversations or situations, yet there is plenty of the unconventional and unexpected. The descriptions of the various Russian scenes which from the background of the story - morning in St. Petersburg, the drosky-driver, Russian tea, and the Imperial guard review - are perhaps the best part of the story, for they exhibit a keenness of observation and strength of diction which are not apparent in many Advocate stories. It it a picture of real human...
...background of the picture is laid on the Volga River the slight and bits of Eastem description which are thrown in here and there afford an excellent frame for the whole...
...accompanies the text. Another paper of unique interest is Mrs. Joseph Pennell's description of A "Water Tournament" at Martigues, in the south of France, a sport which partakes of the nature of a joust, with lance and shield, from elevated perches at the prows of boats, with a background of Provencal pageantry. The illustrations are by Mr. Pennell...
Perhaps the cleverest bit of prose in the issue is a half story, half sketch, by Austin Smith, entitled "Moontide." The scene of the events narrated is Boston and its surroundings, the Harvard Bridge and the Charles River, and the very familiarity of the background breeds not a contempt but a pleasure. The sketch-for it is, perhaps, more of a sketch than a story-gives in a few pages a delineation, at once life-like and pleasurable, an architect, poverty-stricken, aristocratic, and fairly intellectual, and of a concomitant fellow-being.- a governess,- with whom the architect eventually falls...
...Institute at Athens, published his conclusions, the results of a careful architectural study of the theatre of Dionysius at Athens, which were to the effect that the proscenium which had generally been considered the front wall of the stage was really the support of the scenery and furnished a background for both actors and chorus who played in the orchestra. The announcement of such results attained by a trained architect as well as scholar lead Professor White, who had long been dissatisfied with the adaptablity of the old theory to the practical setting of a play, to undertake a thorough...