Word: quaint
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore writes about "Collections of Teapots" and Herbert Pierson on a quaint fireplace in Bruges. The fiction of the number is contributed by Gertrude Franklin Atherton and R. M. Johnston, the poetry by G. E. Montgomery, J. W. Wiedemeyer, William Wheeler, Elizabeth Akers and Marion M. Miller. Murat Holstead contributes the mouthy review of current events and Dr. E. E. Hale the "Social Problems." The magazine is well illustrated and has a very neat appearance...
...Less Serious Nonsense," by Mr. K. Brown, is apparently a companion piece to some "serious nonsense" published in the Monthly last January. It is a clever dialogue with many quaint quirks and quibbles...
...death naturally renewed public interest in it. To this article, entitled "The Early Career of Robert Browning, 1812-1845," is added a very brief chapter of personal reminiscences and an epilogue. The epilogue is merely some verses from Ronsard, to which Browning was very partial, quoted here with their quaint old spelling preserved...
...they were last, but handsome gold, silver and bronze medals. They are very valuable and ornamental, struck from dies especially made this year for the Association. On one side in bold relief is a demlpesagus-the emblem of he club,-and on the other, round the edge, in quaint, artistic letters, also in relief, is the name of the Association, and engraved in the middle the name of the race...
...Tale of Three Wise Men," is a curious little story. It is interesting mostly for its quaint style which is consistently sustained from beginning to end, a subtle vein of humor pervades the whole, and adds a good deal to the tale...