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...Smith cited the instance of Lieutenant Hobson who, ready to die for his country in the Spanish War, blocked the entrance to the harbor in which the enemy's fleet lay at anchor. Immediately the whole country rang with the praises of this daring young officer--until a newspaper story stamped him as vain and sentimental. It was the same with the man who won the battle of Manila Bay. When our nation, anxious to show its gratitude to Admiral Dewey, presented him with a house, he turned it over to his wife, and immediately "mud" was thrown...
...LECTURES ON THE MODERN GERMAN DRAMA. "Grillparzers Werke III. Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg, Die Judin von Toledo, Esther, Libussa." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...
...LECTURES ON THE MODERN GERMAN DRAMA. "Heinrich von Kleists Werke III. Die Hermannsschlacht und der Prinz von Homburg." Professor Kuehnemann. Emerson...
...Stadium for two performances by Miss Maude Adams and her company on the evenings of June 21 and 22, 1909, under the auspices of the Association. Miss Adams will give her services for the benefit of the Museum, and will present the English version of Schiller's drama, "Die Jungfrau von Orleans...
...beauty of the past, the other the national leader in the advance towards intellectual freedom. In the "normal" class also belongs Mr. Grandgent's story, "The 'Medomac'." This is a thoroughly healthy tale of ghosts that turn out to be pirates, and mysterious uncles that reappear in order to die melodramatic deaths. Two pieces of verse may also be classed among the contributions which are "normal": Mr. Britten's translation of one of Paul Verlaine's lyrics, charming except for the clumsy third stanza; and Mr. Douglas's "Fourteen to One." This, which sounds rather like Kipling in a great...