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...historical novel truthfully represent the life of the past...
...parallel work to the college but having a much lower standard of admission. These conditions which make it possible for the American student to leave long gaps in his education are eccentricities which no well balanced system of education would admit. The thought that this suggests is certainly novel and almost startling. Is the time not far distant when some university shall stand up and say that the only way to its professional schools is through the A. B. of a college of recognized standing? The remarks of President Eliot last Friday certainly seemed to indicate that he thinks something...
...Fifty Years." The last fifty years comprise two marked literary periods; the epoch of Realism in France and the flourishing Victorian era in England. Meanwhile the development of letters in America has been thorough. The characteristic of the three literatures during this time has been the reign of the novel and the divisions of literature assume the following order for the subject in hand: Historical Writing, Literary Criticism, and Imaginative Writing. The last subdivides into Drama, Poetry and Fiction. In all these branches, Realism, which in France began about 1840 as a revulsion from the violent romantic outburst which preceded...
...Rational Cure," the only bit of fiction in the number, is an excellent piece of work. While the plot as a whole has no particular originality, there are a number of minor incidents which Mr. Hapgood has treated in a fresh and novel manner. The author has woven into his cloth several threads of Boston Bohemianism, Beacon Street society, and man's affection requited and the whole forms a fabric at once compact and pleasing...
...other courses, offered as by far the larger part of the new instruction, embody another novel and important feature. This is an effort to bring about the co-operation of a large number of specialists, of the grade of university professors, in the giving of instruction concerning the best methods of elementary teaching in their own departments. How this end will be accomplished, the fuller announcement soon to be published will show better than can yet be done. As a rule, in each of the topics above mentioned, a course of lectures, by instructors belonging to the department in question...