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...concert was given in the evening at the Odeon and was the best that we had given so far, but the musical critic of one of the Cincinnati papers seemed astonished that "a school of the national prestige of Harvard can send out one club with vocal attributes, a second armed with that implement of torturous significance and African identification, the banjo, and a third supplied with the Spaniard's favorite vehicle for the conveyance of the message of love, the mandolin and guitar...
...Mackenzie '91, is the musical critic of the Cambridge Tribune...
Best general references: Congressional Record, vol. 17, part II., pp. 1337 41; Public Opinion, December 28; Nation, March 13, Jan. 30, Jan. 9, Jan. 16, Nation, vol. 42, pp. 121, 142, 207, 265, American Catholic Quarterly, XIII., 345; Critic, VIII...
...Granting that an international copyright is desirable, the present bill should not pess, because: (1), the bill contains protective measures. e. g. Foreign authors are compelled to employ American publishers.- Senate bill 262; Critic, vol. 15. p. 331; Nation, vol. 46, 522. (2). The bill compels American authors to publish their books at home or loose their copyright.- Nation, vol. 46, 522. (3), The bill secures a monopoly to American publishers-Forum...
Arnold's fame as a literary critic rests on his two well known collections of essays. The essence of criticism, he says, is disinterestedness. At the same time he well understood that it was the sine qua non of a great critic to have a definite point of view. He chose a text and threw a strong and steady light upon it. His horizon was wider even than that of St. Beuve's. Yet he sometimes fell into ambiguities, and was often led astray by his fondness for phrases. Arnold will always live, nevertheless, as the greatest English critic...