Word: novels
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Illustrations are a valuable embellishment in many kinds of books, and in scientific works are an absolute necessity. But to illustrate a novel is in bad taste. In fiction, where the appeal is mainly to the imagination of the reader, he ought to be allowed to figure the characters and incidents in his own mind without having his ideas shocked by the sketches of some misnamed "artist," who attempts to depict scenes of which he seems not to have the faintest conception. To illustrate a book to help the understanding is a useful field for the pencil, but to illustrate...
What difficulties the Company had to encounter at Springfield, and with what energy they pushed their scheme forward, must be apparent to all who have read the Old and New, of October, or the Globe for June 9. To the pioneers in this novel scheme the College owes hearty thanks for having kept alive the old prestige of Harvard's independence and indomitable pluck; for it must be remembered that the operators were unassisted by any other college...
...play was brought out at this theatre last week entitled "The New Magdalen." It is a dramatization by Wilkie Collins of his novel bearing the same name, but differs essentially from the novel in its conclusion, and was written expressly for Miss Leclercq. The plot is interesting and exciting throughout, although we must confess it weakens perceptibly during the long speeches, moral and sentimental, of the unclerical parson Vivian Gray. The character of Mercy Merrick gives Miss Leclercq an opportunity to display her magnificent dramatic powers. Her story is that of a young woman making every effort against the prejudices...
...extremely effective as arranged either for the piano-forte or a full orchestra. It has been played at some of the theatres for the past fortnight with great success. The air of the trio is very sweet and pleasing, and the combinations in harmony throughout, many of them novel and ingenious, give the piece a very different character from the tum-ti-tum marches which are everywhere published with such lavish profusion...
...regret having been compelled to leave so long unnoticed a recent contribution to the Advocate commenting on, or rather criticising, my article on Bulwer. This would-be critic opens with, and again repeats, an opinion that my ideas are wholly erroneous concerning two, at least, of Bulwer's novels. Not having read "Eugene Aram" for some years, I took occasion, recently, to look it through again, and I see no reason "why it should not have been censured at the time of its publication because the characters were taken from Newgate." Although the remark might apply equally well to "Paul...