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canvas, a sail or a collection of sails of a vessel; a coarse, heavy cloth of hemp or flax, spread to catch the wind by means of which a vessel is driven forward in the water.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis （1850-1894）, Scottish essayist, romancer, and poet.
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eradicate, root out; pluck up by the roots; destroy utterly.
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Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A. America’s foremost seat of learning, founded in 1636. William James was professor of psychology and philosophy at Harvard.
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sterilized conceit, personal vanity that has been rid of microbes even;conceit that is very particular and exclusive.
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Edith Wyatt （1873-1958）, American author. Her home is in Chicago. Her Every One His Own Way was printed in 1901.
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a couple, a wedded or engaged pair.
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Richard Elliot, one of the main characters in Edith Wyatt’s book.
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feminine counterpart, wife.
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caricatures, grotesque representations of persons by overemphasis on characteristics.
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Cambridge and Boston, where Harvard University is located.
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priggishness . A prig is a person who is narrowly or self-consciously engrossed in his own mental or spiritual attainments.
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painter’s colic, a paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.
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trade disease, illness, sickness, or ailment pertaining to a particular trade.
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pounces, swoops down and seizes.
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human core . The core is the central part of anything; the essential part; hence, the heart or soul of the human being.
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regnant, prevalent, predominant, ruling.
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robuster, more vigorous.
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gives it a wide berth, keeps far away from it.
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“tone,” prevailing character of morals, sentiments, etc., which gives a general effect of the whole.
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reverts, turns back, goes back; returns.
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spreading power, power of spreading and influencing others.
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McClure’s Magazine, etc., are all American magazines of a very popular nature and therefore not of the highest literary merit.
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popular university, a place of higher learning for the mass of people. clarification, act or process of making clear.
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“ten-cent magaines,” popular magazines, commonly trashy or sensational, and sold for ten cents, so that all may buy them to read.
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