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SOPHOMORE THEMES.Theme V. is due April 17. Subjects: 1. A Criticism of some recent popular Novel. 2. An Account of the Tertiary Coal in the United States. 3. Gortschakoff. 4. Political Career of Daniel Webster. 5. The Correspondence between Emerson and Carlyle. 6. A Comparison of Schiller's "Song of the Bell" with Longfellow's "Building of the Ship." 7. A Description of an old New England Town. 8. A short story...
Robert Grant, author of "Confessions of a Frivolous Girl," has written a new novel, called "An Average...
...hardly too much to hope that they may find it work profitable to show why a writer is what he is. Mr. Perry's book, although of deep value to the reflective student, will be found - especially in its examination into the origin of the English novel, and into the growth of realism, - of fresh interest to the general reader. The work is a credit to Harvard scholarship...
...fourth forensic will be due March 9, from 11 to 12 A. M., in Sever 3. Subjects: 1. What is the cause of the great increase of novel writing at the present day? 2. Is success the true measure of ability? 3. The power of the press in politics. 4. Was the opposition to the war of 1812 by the Federalists justifiable? 5. Do the climatic and geographical features of a country have an influence in forming the character of the people? 6. Is Mr. Henry James a true delineator of American character...
...Howells' new novel, "A Woman's Reason," which will be begun in the February number of the Century Magazine, promises to resemble some of his earlier books rather than his last. The first instalment opens the story in Boston among familiar streets - the Common, with its "Brewer Fountain and its four seasons of severe drouth" - and concerns itself with a Miss Helen Harkness, who "danced through Harvard," (mystifying statement) was graduated, and proposed to by several of the men of her class, whom she judged were all silly, and accordingly refused...