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Page 291 - Amid the great flood of ephemeral literature that pours from the press, it is well to be recalled by such publications as the " Laurel-Crowned Letters " to books that have won an abiding place in the classical literature of the world.
Page 296 - THIS is a masterly and original delineation of Indian life. It is a strong story, charged with the elemental forces of the human heart. The author portrays with unusual power the intense, stern piety of the ministers of colonial New England, and the strange mingling of dignity, superstition, ferocity, and stoicism that characterized the early Indian warriors. There is no need of romancing, and Mr. Balch's scenic descriptions are for all practical purposes real descriptions. The legends he relates...
Page 296 - ... legends he relates of the great bridge which once spanned the Columbia, for which there is some substantial history, adds to the mystical charms of the story. His Indian characters are as real as if photographed from life. No writer has presented a finer character than the great chief of the Willamettes, Multnomah ; Snoqualmie the Cayuse ; or Tohomish the Seer. The night visit of Multnomah to the tomb of his dead wife upon that lonely island in the Willamette is a picture that will forever live...
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Page 295 - THE uncommonly favorable reception of Mrs. Abbott's brilliant novelette, " Alexia," by the public bespeaks in advance a lively interest in her new novel, " The Beverleys." It is a more extended and ambitious work than the former, but has the same grace of style and liveliness of treatment, together with a much more considerable plot and more subtle delineations of character and life. The action of the story takes place in India, and reveals on the part of the authoress the most intimate knowledge...
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Page 5 - Elizabeth was also a capable musician, and taught music in her mother's school. At the age of sixteen she began her novel, ' Charles Auchester." She sent the manuscript to Benjamin Disraeli, who forwarded it to his publisher, and wrote to the author, ' No greater book will ever be written upon music, and it will one day be recognised as the imaginative classic of that divine art.
Page 50 - Coming back quickly, he placed a little spirit lamp upon the table, and a little bright kettle over it ; it boiled very soon. He made such tea ! — I shall never forget it ; and when I told him I very seldom had tea at home, he answered, " I seldom drink more than one cup myself ; but I think one cannot hurt even such a nervous person as you are, — and besides, tea improves the voice, — did you know that ? " I laughed, and drew my chair close to his. Nor shall I ever forget the tiny loaves,...
Page 157 - I never yet heard a stringed force go through an oratorio, and its violent exercises for the tutti, without falling at least a tone.