Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Victorian who, reviewing the February number of the Harvard Monthly, is by his ancient limitations compelled to comfort himself with these lines, the contributors may with equal justice hurl them back again as they were originally hurled by way of retaliation. It is absolutely true that the one-time, "music of the future" has today become a part of the music of the past: Siegfried is as simple as "Home, Sweet, Home," and twenty years hence, to the successor of a certain Harvard instructor who, after a performance of one of the most modern compositions of D'Indy or some...
...stories. "They don't end as they ought to, or, perhaps better, as do those I am accustomed to read," says the Victorian. "Yours is very definite, very cleverly told, Mr. Burlingame, but why deal with the exceptional Boston John, especially if he is a snob and a cad, when there are so many Johns of Boston who are straight and clean and brave? The gentleman of the first person, as well as he of the third, whom Mr. Barlow conducts through a Parisian evening in a study of the contrast between Basque impetuosity and English simplicity, pay a very...
...Victorian turns to the verse: here surely will be comfort; he can understand. Mist, Water-Lilies, Dusk, Evening in the Town, To Snowflakes Dancing Before My Window, In Memoriam, Their First Ride Together; Wordsworth, Herrick, Tennyson, Browning! The mantle of the great upon the shoulders of another generation of poetic youth! Poetry is not dead, whatever may have been one's feelings after reading Number 1 of the new Poetry Journal...
...country. He has made several expeditions to China, exploring the unknown forests of the interior in quest of new specimens, and he has succeeded in obtaining many valuable species which are likely to prove of commercial benefit to New England. Recently Mr. Wilson was presented with the Victorian Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain for distinguished services in horticulture and arboriculture...