Payne William Morton
William Morton Payne (February 14, 1858, Newburyport – 1919) was an American educator, literary critic and writer. Payne was the son of Henry Norton Payne, a cotton-mill machinery manufacturer in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Emma Tilton. In 1868 his family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he continued his education.[1] From 1874 to 1876 he was an assistant librarian in Chicago Public Library, and from 1876 to 1909 a Chicago high school instructor, teaching economics, givil government and American history. [2] He worked as literary editor of the Chicago Morning News (1884-88) and then the Chicago Evening Journal (1888-92). In 1892 he became an associate editor for The Dial. As well as writing for The Dial, Payne wrote for The Forum, The Bookman, Harper's Weekly, The Atlantic Monthly, Music, The New England Magazine, and The International Monthly.[3] Between 1900 and 1904 he lectured on English literature at Wisconsin. Kansas and Chicago universities. He was unmarried. Payne's literary criticism treated modern literature, especially poetry, in English, French, German, Italian, and the languages of Scandinavia. He translated (1888) Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson's historical trilogy Sigurd Slembe and (1895) Henrik Bernhard Jaeger's biography of Henrik Ibsen from Norwegian.[4]
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SHAKESPEARE IN FRANCE. The learned M. Jusserand, who is as entertaining as he is learned, and who has done almost as much as Taine did (although in a very different way) to give a new interest to the history of English literature, has published a book upon the fortunes of Shakespeare among the Frenchmen. The subject of this investigation is so novel, as well as so interesting inherently, that it seems worth while to tell M. Jusserand's story in condensed form, although it has been made fully accessible to English readers. Of course, we all know in its general outline the history of Shakespearian study in France, but few even among students know the interesting details of the narrative which M. Jusserand has illustrated from the wealth of his rich and curious reading, which he has adorned with his piquant style and warmed with his sympathetic ' appreciation' of the greatest poet of the modern world. M. Jusserand introduces his narrative by settingside by side two passages, published respectively in 1645 and 1765, and roughly indicating the limits of the period to which the chief interest of the story attaches, the period during which Shakespeare won his way to the French consciousness. The first extract is from Blaeu's 'Theatre du Monde,' a sort of glorified gaz- eteer, and informs the reader that Stratford is a pleasant little town which owes its entire glory to ' Jehan de Stratford, archeveque de Cantor- bery' and 'Hugues de Clopton, juge a Londres.' One of these worthies, it seems, built a church in Stratford, and the other spanned the Avon with a bridge. To this writer, Shakespeare was less than a name; Stratford had enough of glory in its claim upon the primate and the judge. The other extract is from the ' Encyclopaedia,' and speaks of Stratford in this fashion : ' ...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SHAKESPEARE IN FRANCE. The learned M. Jusserand, who is as entertaining as he is learned, and who has done almost as much as Taine did (although in a very different way) to give a new interest to the history of English literature, has published a book upon the fortunes of Shakespeare among the Frenchmen. The subject of this investigation is so novel, as well as so interesting inherently, that it seems worth while to tell M. Jusserand's story in condensed form, although it has been made fully accessible to English readers. Of course, we all know in its general outline the history of Shakespearian study in France, but few even among students know the interesting details of the narrative which M. Jusserand has illustrated from the wealth of his rich and curious reading, which he has adorned with his piquant style and warmed with his sympathetic ' appreciation' of the greatest poet of the modern world. M. Jusserand introduces his narrative by settingside by side two passages, published respectively in 1645 and 1765, and roughly indicating the limits of the period to which the chief interest of the story attaches, the period during which Shakespeare won his way to the French consciousness. The first extract is from Blaeu's 'Theatre du Monde,' a sort of glorified gaz- eteer, and informs the reader that Stratford is a pleasant little town which owes its entire glory to ' Jehan de Stratford, archeveque de Cantor- bery' and 'Hugues de Clopton, juge a Londres.' One of these worthies, it seems, built a church in Stratford, and the other spanned the Avon with a bridge. To this writer, Shakespeare was less than a name; Stratford had enough of glory in its claim upon the primate and the judge. The other extract is from the ' Encyclopaedia,' and speaks of Stratford in this fashion : ' ...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ENGLISH AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY. PROFESSOR MELVILLE B. ANDERSON. In order to understand the purposes and methods of the English courses at the Leland Stanford Jr. University, it is necessary to know something about our system of what is technically called " major subjects." At the beginning of his second year in the University every student is expected to elect a specialty, to which he shall devote at least a third of his time throughout his undergraduate course. So soon as the specialty, or major subject, has been chosen, the professor of that subject becomes the student's official adviser, and no degree is granted until the course pursued by the student shall have been in all respects satisfactory to the professor. It will be seen that this system combines the advantages of great freedom of election on the part of the student, with those of direct, close, and friendly supervision on the part of an expert. Thus, for example, if a student upon entering the University chooses English as his major subject, he is expected to report every semester to one of the professors of English, whose approval he is bound to secure for the course he elects. Should the student see fit to elect certain subjects not approved by his major professor, he is perfectly free to do so, the probable result being that his residence at the University will be so much the more prolonged. If, therefore, a student is willing either to prolong his residence or to renounce the hope of obtaining a degree, his freedom of election is conditioned only upon his competency to get on in the studies elected. The usualresult of the system is simply this: The student takes the five or more hours of work in English (if that be his specialty); several more hours in collateral subjects, such as Latin, French, German, or Hi... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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It will be well, however, to make certain distinctions between the life work of Bjornson and that of the two men whom a common age and common aims bring into inevitable association with him. These distinctions are chiefly two,--one of them is that while Tolstoy and Ibsen grew to be largely cosmopolitan in their outlook, Bjornson has much more closely maintained throughout his career the national, or, at any rate, the racial standpoint. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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