Word: note
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPH.- The photograph of all ninety-four editors and present editors will be taken at Pach's, Monday, April 23, at 1.30 sharp. If any one can not go, he will please leave a note on the bulletin board...
...interesting, as an index to good books, to note those on which many of the thirty were agreed. Some work of Scott's was selected by almost all, Henry Esmond by seventeen, some work of Victor Hugo's by sixteen, Vanity Fair by fifteen, Don Quixote, Middlemarch, and one of Balzac's by twelve, Tom Jones by ten, Adam Bede, David Copperfield, and one of Miss Austen's by nine, Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Kidnapped or David Balfour by seven, the Pickwick Papers and a Tale of Two Cities by six, and Gil Blas by five...
...they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give us instead: "Here on this bench and school of Time," and defend it as a better reading in a note. Another German critic of great pretensions, pronounces "the Life and Death of Thomas Lord Cromwell," and "The Yorkshire Tragedy" to be Shakespeare's on the strength of structure and diction. Quoting from the last named play, he declares "the description of remorse...
...uncle after whom he is named. An old maid hoping to please her brother-in-law, writes to the elder Richard Streicher asking him to paint the portrait of her niece, explaining at the same time that she thoroughly disapproves of young artists. The young Richard Streicher receives the note and takes in the situation. He disguises himself and so wins the confidence of the aunt by his politeness that she leaves him with her niece. He then reveals his identity to the niece and in the course of several sittings gains her love and then the consent...
...financial compensation whatever for their services in connection with the Review." Articles will be written for the paper by "members of the faculty of Harvard University, persons prominently connected with university extension and university settlement work in New England and elsewhere, specialists in social science, and persons of note residing in Boston and Cambridge...