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...such a heinous piece of business as we were guilty of here. At the risk of self-repetition, we should like to quote again, for the American's benefit, Mr. Wilde's own comment upon the affair : "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun, not meant in any sort of malice." After all this, why should so fair a paper as the American persist in judging us so harshly, when even our own Crimson, ardent admirer and exponent of Mr. Wilde as it is, sees nothing to condemn...
...productions appeared during a few months in 1879. This sheet was entitled Le Quartier Latin: Journal Humoristique, Litteraire et Scientifique, and it promised to be the 'organ of the wants and pleasures of the students.' Tales, madrigals, sonnets, anecdotes and jokes filled its columns; there was scarcely a serious bit of writing in it. Now, the young men with journalistic talent send their contributions to such papers as the Beaumarchais, the Jeune France and the Parnasse, but the quarter has no special literary organ that represents its interests and advocates its claims. . . . The slang of the Parisian student...
...have been at sea in very rough weather. I wanted to see the fury of an Atlantic gale." And to the question as to what reception he had met with from his audiences, he answered: "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that was a bit of school-boy fun not meant in any sort of malice." Then he entered upon an explanation of his mission in America, respecting many of the admirable platitudes of his lecture here, and praising the American character and our possibilities for the future...
...Boston Theatre Company made a decided bit in "Youth," at Baltimore last evening...
...nearly so strong as the character demanded. Her enunciation was indistinct in many places, and throughout she made use of an assumed tragic voice that was not natural. In her final scene, however, just before Jocasta leaves the stage for the last time, she gave a fine bit of acting, far above the mediocre, for which she was recalled upon the stage...