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...lesser characters; - Scott, Burns, Gray, Wordsworth, Dickens, Thackeray and Jane Austen. The power of observation is the pre-eminent characteristic of them all. Sympathy and enthusiasm accompany all close observation and genius may be described as the labour of untiring observation. Nor is this power great in works of fiction only. In science Agassiz and Darwin were peculiarly gifted in this direction...
...fiction of the number consists of "The Mayor of Lyme Regis," by S. P. Duffield, and "Mile. Pourgeot's Cat," by H. P. Dodge. The former is a description of the struggle which the mayor of a sleepy, contented old English village goes through when he is besought by an American cousin to come to the land of "booms" and make his fortune. The peace of mind which comes to the old man when he finally comes to his senses and rids himself of the "latent germ of greediness and ambition," is delightfully portrayed...
...fiction, "Our Tolstoi Club" by Dorothy Prescott is decidedly the best, if we except the two serials. It is an amusing story, filled with palpable hits at the provinciality and gossip of a Boston suburb. How "Gay's Romance," by the author of "The Anglomaniacs," will turn out, it is hard to say; the first chapters are not uninteresting...
...flirt with her he feels repentant and ends his Oberammergau journal with the hope that she will "try" to forget him. If the episode is founded on fact one must infer that writer and young lady had more than normal powers of impression and susceptibility. If it is fiction, it commits the sin of improbability. Certain touches of local color are well done...
...most interesting characterization of the traits of the town and its inhabitants, and is full of Emersonian phrases. Miss Calls article on "The Greatest Need of College Girls" is interesting and is refreshing from the very nature of the subject. There are a couple of clever pieces of fiction, a review of the political situation and a lot of letters of John Stuart Mill. These latter give an insight into the life of a great thinker and are decidedly interesting. The leading article in verse is entitled "Down by the Shore in December," and Mr. Parsons name...