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There are also many qualities that the short story does not demand. To write one does not require a sustained imagination, nor broadness and sanity in point of view. We do not require that the short story writer should have a philosophy of life or be a particularly deep thinker...
Thackeray's literary fortune has been, in one respect, unique. He founded no school of writers nor attended at any time supreme popularity, but his works have constantly increased in favor both among authors and among the reading public. To understand rightly the genius of Thackeray's writings, one must...
"Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's first great success. In truthful depiction and now in satire he had succeeded; he was then to enter, as a novelist, the third stage of his literary development. "Fun is good, truth is better, and love is best of all" he once wrote, and he...
It was Marshall who established in unquestioned integrity the position of the judiciary as co-ordinate with and equal to the legislative branches of the government, and made the Supreme Court recognized as the power qualified to sanction or veto legislative acts. He laid down for all time the fundamental...
One of the most interesting, though one of the simplest, branches of the Christian Association's work is the series of amateur concerts, readings and impersonations given by men from the University at the college settlement in Boston, at T wharf, and at other places. This work is, of course...