Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, a volume of original, historic and descriptive writings showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress (1901)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, A. J. Holman & co · leaf 758
fic. His numerous works, teeming withstriking situations, strong and noble in style, are models of literary excel-lence, and are as captivating to readers of to-day as they were half a centuryago. Charles Dickens, of England (b. February 7, 1812; d. June 9,1870), ablyexemplified that school of… … SIR WALTER SCOTT. faulty in plot and style and ridiculous in their exaggerations, his novelsmarked a new era in literature, and no books ever so appealed to the sym-pathies and good impulses of readers. James Fenimore Cooper (b. September 15, 1789; d. September 14, 1851)typifies a large and…
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