Word: straus
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Dates: during 1888-1888
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...Marston. Mr. George Parsons Lathrop gave "October Snow" and "Keenan's Charge." Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly followed with a number of epigrams, which were enthusiastically received; also the poems "Ensign Epps" and "In Bohemia." Mr. Charles Follen Adams amused his audience greatly by his recital of "Little Jacob Straus." The last reader who rendered original selections was Miss Charlotte Fiske Bates, to whose untiring exertions the entertainment of the evening was entirely due. Her most applauded poem was a "Quatrain on the Years." The programme was truly a literary feast, and it was thoroughly enjoyed by every one present...