Word: novelizations
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...which George E. Plumbe will be toast-master and the speakers will include Frank H. Hurd of Ohio, George Z. Erwin, ex-speaker of New York State Legislature, Judge Julius S. Grinnell of Chicago, and Charles H. Beckett, formerly Secretary of the Council and author of the popular novel "Who is John Noman...
Haggard's best novel has had a curious experience in an English public library. "King Solomon's Mines" is placed among the works on mineralogy...
...Nation" criticises Prof. Royce's recent novel as follows: "The opportunities which a reader of current fiction may have of giving an hour or two of his time to the work of other than unskilled and frequently presumptuous writers, are, relatively speaking, only too rare. The immense quantity of trash that is thrown into the form of novels, and in some way provided with publisher and audience, is so noticeable that to even speak of it seems commonplace. It is not at all wonderful that we should have this vast stream of fiction, which can in no way be classed...
...plain, straightforward, vigorous style than counts for so much in the admirableness of the whole work; but when there is occasion for a dramatic scene, it is always drawn with power and truth and (notwithstanding the appearance sometimes of gracefulness sacrificed for strength) secundum artem. In fact, the novel is sterling throughout. It is good in plot and workmanship, and in the portrayal and conception of character; it is natural and lifelike, and it is interesting. It is all this not now and then merely, but continually, and with an even, level temper which looks as if the writer...
...active interest taken in base-ball this year is something remarkable and unexpected. The class ball games, which have been rather a failure of late years, were given up this spring, and their place has been supplied in a somewhat novel way. The Consolidated nine was formed with the idea of giving practice to the University and Freshman nines. The success which has attended it has led to the formation of another organization on a similar basis, under the name of the "Reserve" nine. The scheme is now being considered of forming a league, consisting of the Consolidated, the Reserves...