Word: novelizations
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...thrown the last novel right into the fire...
...Sandeau's novels will be found interesting. Le Docteur Herbeau, Sacs et Parchemins, and Mademoiselle de la Seigliere are three of his best. Alphonse Daudet has lately gained a certain celebrity. Most of his novels are very painful reading. Fromont jeune et Risler aine is his best (lately translated under the title Sidonie). Charles de Bernard deserves not to be forgotten. The volume entitled Le Noeud gordien contains several of his stories. Ferdinand Fabre has devoted himself to what might be called the novel of clerical life in France. L'Abbe Tigrane is a work of great power. It will...
...plaster a church with ice-cream is indeed a novel style of decoration. Was it done inside or out? We presume outside, and that internal application was reserved for the "Seniors and Fourth-Years" themselves. We are glad to hear that the experiment of sitting up till nine o'clock after eating ice-cream was a success...
...genius. A chemical laboratory adjoining the lecture-room would also be necessary, in-order to assist the scientific atmosphere and aid the class in establishing suitable habits of analysis. A special lecture-room edition of the work to be expounded should be prepared by interleaving the great ethnic novel romance with pages from Herbert Spencer and Gall and Spurzheim, and from other works, as the professor might select. I believe that if the thing is to be done at all, it ought to be done thoroughly. Moreover, the chair should be a movable one, like those connected with Cornell, which...
...many years since the class of "long-speech" novels died out, for its most prominent representatives in this century are the works of G. P. R. James. His minute descriptions of his heroines, beginning with the "finely pencilled eyebrows" and "shell-like ear," and extending to the "delicately turned ankle," give one the impression of an elegant china doll; and when from the mouth of this superb being issues a flood of pedantic sentiment, one turns with relief to the "One Summers" of our own time. Here we find something that might possibly happen in our own experience. However unpleasant...