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This number is also made notable by a posthumous story by Walcott Bolestier, who is the co-author with Mr. Kipling of "The Naulahka," "Reffey" is novel in plot and situation, the principal characters being a conductor on a far Western railroad, and two young women, one the manager of an eating-house, and the other a telegraph operator. Mr. Bolestier's friends consider this story a justification of the high hopes that were entertained for the future of this brilliant writer...
...engineer trying to cool a hot box, and by running races along side of the train. In the afternoon the weather kept them on the train, and after lunching at Buffalo the men wandered all over the train. They were treated in a rather cold manner by the conductor, but after Cleveland, where we stopped for supper, the car was properly heated...
...concert closed with a masterly reading, and a brilliant performance of Schumann's great Symphony. Throughout the concert, conductor and players seemed in absolute harmony, Mr. Nikisch again showing his eminent fitness for the position which he held...
...that of being a trifle sentimental. The introductory adagio, as also the adagio third movement, might have seemed to some tastes a little exaggerated, but altogether the performance was by far the most satisfactory that has been heard here within recent years. The Lohengrin prelude showed the conductor in his element. Although there was a slight lack of precision among the violins in the extreme high passages with which the number begins and ends, yet as a whole the effort was inspiring, and to judge from the applause it had the prelude was the most popular number of the evening...
...Boston Symphony orchest a with Nikisch as conductor, will give, as usual, five concerts in Sanders theatre during the fall and winter. They will be given on the Thursday evenings, October 91, December 12, January 9, and March...