Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...such bright and original descriptions as "Youth," "In the Crowd," "A Face," "Broken Butterfly"- for such an able biographical paper as that on "Newman and Kingsley,"- and many other pieces delicate in fancy and execution, of which only lack of space (that never-failing friend of the newspaper critic) prevents mention...
...which will be of interest to Harvard men-one on Professor Toy's recently published "Jndaism and Christianity," the other upon Professor James's "Principles of Psychology." Professor Toy's work is a sketch of the progress of thought from Old Testament to New Testament, and the criticism of it is decidedly favorable, although the reviewer thinks that Professor Toy has an excessive regard for the theory of development and exhibits too much subjective criticism. "Professor James's work," says the critic, "is rich and living,- a book in which a generous nature breaks out at every point, although there...
...present system discriminates for bad books against good ones; Lit. World, XX, 24; and bears heavily on American authors; Critic VIII...
Miss Jeannette Gilder of the Critic contributes a short sketch of an American princess, the wife of Prince Lucien Murat who sought refuge in this country and settled in Bordentown, New Jersey, that home of expelled Bonapartes...
...concert was given in the evening at the Odeon and was the best that we had given so far, but the musical critic of one of the Cincinnati papers seemed astonished that "a school of the national prestige of Harvard can send out one club with vocal attributes, a second armed with that implement of torturous significance and African identification, the banjo, and a third supplied with the Spaniard's favorite vehicle for the conveyance of the message of love, the mandolin and guitar...