The Critic Volume 672-697 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...given of his work, among them the frontispiece referred to above. There are, further, poems by Edith M. Thomas and Pitts Duffield, and some reflections by a Point-of-View writer on the literary advantages people who can write Scotch have over other writers not born to that ability: --" There are such delightful words in that language; words that sing in the printed page wherever their employer happens to drop them in; words that rustle; words that skirl; and words that clash and thump. I can aver that at least one habitual reader of English rinds his attention curiously and agreeably quickened by Scotch words and idioms that are familiar enough not to be troublesome, and unfamiliar enough to give the ear a gentle fillip." Hayden Carruth's " Greeley's Handwriting " is the funniest story we have ever seen on that humor-inspiring subject. "Harper's Magazine" JULIAN Ralph's paper on " Our National Capital " is the best of the series he is contributing to this periodical. It outlines clear'y and swiftly the different social sirata and the peculiarities of each, neglecting neither the White House, the Embassies, nor the wealthy Negroes and people of color. There is a certain air of conviction about Lucy C. Lillie's string of "Ghostly Premonitions" that makes them impressive reading. She vouches for the truth of nearly every story she tells, and deserves well of the Society for Psychical Research. How Paris received the news of Carnot's assassination is told by Richard Harding Davis, who expected an impressive demonstration of national grief and was sorely disappointed. Mr. Gibson has sketched six of the causes of this disappointment. The "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc," by the Sieur Louis de Conte...