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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Modred. This work was afterwards versified, and was much amplified and adorned. Sir Thomas Malory devotes most of his book to Merlin, Lancelot, the Sangreal, and Guinevere. The two histories coincide only in regard to the birth of Arthur, the Roman Expedition, and the final battle; the first is almost entirely the life of Arthur alone, and in the second Lancelot is the chief figure, and more prominence is given to other knights of the Round Table and the search for the Sangreal...
...America; for therein he shows a censurable lack of respect for an acknowledged authority and a lamentable amount of ignorance and unfamiliarity with the subject. The writer is surprised that Mr. Emerson did not devote more attention to Omar Khayyam. Why should he? The fact that Omar Khayyam, previously almost unknown from the rarity of his manuscripts, has been recently exhumed, as it were, and dressed up in English, does not prove that he was a great poet, or deserves to be classed with Hafiz, Firdansi, or Nizami. On the contrary, Mr. Emerson, it would seem, shows commendable tact...
...building until he slams his door, three flights up. His performance of the "Inman March" is something electrifying. Of late he has bestowed his energies on the funeral dirge in "Round the World in Eighty Days," and has brought it to such a state of perfection that one almost expects to see the Amazons, et catera, coming up the stairs. His audience fondly trust that some other equally classical air may soon take the place of this...
...Bowdoin Orient publishes a Drinking Song, which reflects almost as severely upon the ladies of Brunswick, as recent articles in the Yale Record have reflected upon the ladies of New Haven. It begins with an exclamation about the "luring looks divine" that "lies" - for "lie" would not rhyme - in "maiden's eyes," and calls upon us to "pledge the maid in sparkling wine." The next verse tells us that
...large number of the inhabitants, we should judge some five thousand, were compelled by the Legislature to board together. A vast amount of murmuring was the natural result. Almost every paper speaks of it. The price of the board was extortionate, and the quality was very poor. The meat was sent from the West to Harvard in barrels. From other sources we learn that the meat was bought of a certain landowner or farmer near a place called Fort Sill. Great corruption at one time prevailed in regard to this meat-supply, and one of the highest officials...