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From the same publishers we have also received "A Singular Life" by Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward. It is an interesting account of the courtship of Mr. and Mrs. Ward at Andover. As an autobiography it is excellent but as a novel it is decidedly stupid...
...inhabitants of the northwestern section along the Pacific were the Aleuts and the western Esquimaux. They are characterized by their carvings of bone, ivory and stone, in which there is often a singular combination of human heads and animal bodies. They had no pottery and used instead vessels of wood, stone or basket work...
architectural remains in many parts of Greece. His singular ability has repeatedly been recognized by appointments to positions of authority...
...greatly lamented, for it caused him to attempt much, and to finish little. His many and various tastes urged him different ways. He looked too deeply into the "well spring of truth," and in striving after the unobtainable, he left behind him a life of singular incompleteness, but of vast promise. He was neither religionist nor classicist, and looked at things coldly and scientifically. For the blending of light and shade, harmony, and grace of contour, he was almost unsurpassed...
...period. The beauty of the classic and religious motives appear to perfection in his paintings. His characters were sensuous but never sensual. Correggio was litte affected by the great movements of his time. He was one of the very greatest of the Renaissance painters, and it is a singular thing that he painted and died almost in obscurity...