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"Lothaire," a poem by P. L. Shaw, is excellent. The heroic strain is artificial and the vocabulary crude, but the poem is decidedly well worth publishing. "The Little Conservatory Girl," by A. D. Sheffield is a well told story. The College Kodaks are weak, except the one about Dan, the...
"L'Avare," with several other works of Moliere's, as Don Juan, is incorrectly called comedy. The French comedy, means, not comedy, but simply play. Comedy was a prominent feature of Moliere's work, but in some of his plays tragedy plays an important part. The two works mentioned above...
The main theme of "The Miser," as it is called, is the blind greed and selfishness of the old man, Harpagon. The opportunity for the comic element is evident and it is made the most of. In the relations, however, between Harpagon and Cleante and Mariane, his son and daughter...
A general physical deterioration of the race is taking place in the large cities and in some parts of the rural districts, which can only be checked and corrected by a return to more simple modes of life or by artificial exercising.
In the fourteenth century there were many stories about Sir Thomas Gawain, some traced directly from French source, some imitations and some indigenous to the English soil. The poem of "Sir Thomas Gawain and the Green Knight" is only French in its materials, for it has been worked up by...