Word: husbanding
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...Inartistic Hero," in a certain quaintness of conception and peculiarity of style, reminds us of its author's production in the last number of the Advocate, "Husband versus Poet." The idea of the tale is original and the effect is, on the whole, good, - although marred in places by incoherence of diction...
...take out her provisions Hallgertha sends a servant to steal from a neighbor, and when questioned by her husband replies it is not for men to concern themselves about the cooking. Gunnar strikes her and she says she'll not forget the blow. Gunnar is warned not to kill twice in the same lineage, but his cousin Mord treacherously causes him to kill the son of a father whom he has already killed. Gunnar is outlawed and refusing to leave Iceland is killed. His wife remembering the blow on the cheek refuses to help him. Kolskegg became captain...
...Husband Versus Poet" is a short tale having for its theme the story of a poet who tried his wife's constancy by adopting the plan of sending her ardent love-letters in an assumed hard and some of his most seductive love-sonnets. After much of this sort of thing, the poet's wife writes to her unknown admirer that she loves her husband and is faithful to him and hates the "namby-tamby verses which have been sent her. Dr. Jekyll, the husband, is complacent on learning the truth; but Mr. Hyde, the poet, is frantic with rage...
...Harvard Annex" is now, Professor and Mrs. Farrar on Kirkland Street, and Longfellow, a slender, blonde young professor, was lodging in the Craigie House, which became his home afterwards. He pays a glowing tribute to Lowell's wife, and dilates at some length upon her influence on her husband. Harvard men will feel themselves thoroughly at home in reading the article for it is full of familiar pictures and drawings of the different places and people spoken of and the pen and ink and pencil drawings by William Goodrich Beal and Sears Gallagher do much to strengthen the warm sympathy...
...betrothal there was a grand festival to which all the friends of both families were invited. The marriage ceremony took place in the morning and was followed by a grand banquet. About twilight a procession was formed by all the guests and the bride was led to her husband's house, and from that time her father lost control...