Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...fiction of the number is good, beginning with an excellent piece of work entitled "Love Among Arms." It is an unusual story for a college magazine, the scene being on the Austrian border, and the plot, - for extraordinary as it may be, there is a plot, - is interesting and will worked out. The sketch which follows it is light and trifling, not wholly uninteresting, but of no great merit. And then come the Kodaks, And with one exception it would be hard to accumulate a more pointless collection of sketches. The exception referred to comes first, and is ready...
...comparison with the theories of Mr. Howell's and the modern school. It is a thorough piece of work and well-done. The dozen pages which follow it are occupied by "Bifurcation," a difficult thing to classify. It is apparently a story with occasional suggestions of a plot but in reality it is a discussion, chiefly religious, which ends with a sermon. There are two characters in it-one a minister-that would do good to the heart of a lover of complexity; the other a New York girl who thinks. The story is full of ideas but they...
...Rouge et Noir' is a reminiscence of an alleged experience. It is good, the reminiscence, we mean, and there is the atmosphere of Paris about it all. There is not much in the plot, to be sure, but the descriptions make up for that lack...
...manner too in which they are spoken of, the suggestive little touches of style, are much the same. Nevertheless the story does not lose much even though it invites comparison with work of such acknowledged excellence. The conversation is well done, the boy is true to life, and the plot, though very improbable, is one of those that have pleased men ever since time began...
...Dance on the Susquehanna," by W. D. Howe is a pretty good sketch, especially when one takes into account the fact that almost all the plot is implied rather than expressed. The three most important events of the incident are told, very briefly, yet quite vividly, and there are a few words of introduction and conclusion. That is all, yet the plot is entirely clear...