Word: bleakness
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BOSTON MUSEUM.- Mme. Janauschek in "The Bleak House...
BOSTON MUSEUM.- Mme. Janauschek in "The Bleak House...
BOSTON MUSEUM.- Mme. Janauschek in "The Bleak House...
...Roses and Cypress" in the last Advocate by the same author. In both stories the light coquetry and vanity of a pretty young girl brings on the death of her lover. This motive, always a fascinating one, is as well brought out in the hills up here in our bleak New England during the Revolution as it was in the warm sun of the Riviera. A bright poem entitled "Letters" follows this, and tells a world of woe in a very few words. "Around Judith," an account in the happiest vein of the recent Harvard trip down to New York...
Citizens of Cambridge, lend us your ears! - "A Cambridge correspondent of the Critic actually insinuates that the atmosphere of art in the classic surburb is about as bleak as a Dekota blizzard. The studios are few and the visitors fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone...