Word: pleasingness
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The monthly for February is more than usually devoted to fiction. The number opens, however, with a somewhat lengthy consideration of "The Humour of Caucer," by J. B. Holmes, prolonged to such an extent that the interest of the reader is in danger of flagging before the end is reached...
Among the editorials it is pleasing to come upon one which champions that much abused course, English C. Unfavorable criticism of the course has had pretty free play lately, and has, it is to be feared, gone too far. The Monthly gives what would seem to be a better advised...
In the same line of character painting are the more pleasing sketches of "Girls," by A. C. Train. They are not all equally good, but the worst is far from bad, and one or two of them are delightful. Their vividness is in striking contrast with the rather vague picture...
The presence of the large audience which went out to hear Mr. Copeland talk last night on "The Old Comedies," was not only a tribute to the speaker, but a pleasing subject for reflection. It is encouraging to find that in the busy mid-year period so many men care...
The general idea of nature is the most important. A picture, accurate in every detail of some scene in real life, is pleasing when we first look at it, because of the story which it tells, but it always tells the same story; it can tell but one story because...