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...plot of the book is fanciful and strong. Many of the situations are dramatic and intense in feeling, and the fantastic moods of the central character, Richard Beverly, are admirably worked out. But although, as a whole, we heartily commend the plot, there are a number of instances where, it seems to us, its development has been uneven and almost weak. The incidents are not always up to the pitch of dramatic strength which the plot requires, and the book seems at times strangely to lack a centain intensity of emotion which it ought to possess. In several...
This wonderful spectacle is nowhere seen to more advantage than in King Lear. For here we have a central figure too great and awe-inspiring to be lost in the confusion of the scene. Lear's voice, whether in rage, madness or contrition, is so powerful that all the whisperings and wranglings around him seem but its tumultuous echoes. The accompaniment of incidental action does not drown the voice of his supreme passion; and thus is avoided that fault which appears in some of Shakspere's historical plays, where the medley of sentiments and incidents is such that...
Professor Packard, of Brown University, has gone on a six weeks' tour to Mexico and Central America for purposes of research in regard to matters connected with his department...
...colleges of New England have led the thought of all this great continent; their graduates have gone out into all parts, exerting a powerful influence. That you, the delegates from New England colleges should meet here at Harvard, which has so many advantages and which is so central in its position and influence, is indeed a good thing. You all respect bodily equipment and strength, and I, too, have rejoiced in my countrymen as I have seen them at foot-ball or rowing-noble, stalwart, finely built fellows. It is good that you do have this respect, for there...
...fact that he was the typical strong man of the college. I doubt whether I should have had the perseverance to wriggle my way through the examinations for admission had I not been constantly stimulated by the reflection that Bill Blaikie was (to my mind) the central fact of the university...