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Such a character of ambition and sturdy perseverence contained a beautiful and tender side as well. Not only will the appearance of Shaw's well-built figure and noble face be deeply missed, but also his kind smile and pleasant companionship, which all who knew him loved and treasured.
"After Twenty Years" stands in marked contrast to a "A Mutual Fraud" as regards character and treatment. It is a story reminding one of Hawthorne in its general simplicity and in certain descriptive touches. The plot of the story is slender and not particularly original, but the author counterbalances this...
"A Modern Discovery" is an excellent character study of one Vandeleur, a cultivated man and an artist of thirty-five whose chief idiosyncracy-and a pardonable one-is a passionate love for the college surroundings and conditions of life.
It has become evident to the executive committee and other members of the club, from the interest shown in the society by the many liberal and progressive men who while not unreservedly advocating free raw materials have joined it, recognizing that the club represented a broader reform spirit than its...
Diodorus gives the first connected sketch of his life and character. Plutarch's account is the most complete, Diogenes' being shorter and inferior.