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...English society is just now showing signs of great mortification over the escapades of its untamed protege, Oscar the Intense, among those "blawsted Americans." The Philistines never looked upon him with any degree of favor, but now the very elect are beginning to disown him. The former friends of his college days now make haste to repudiate him, and their American correspondents are being duly warned of the "sham." Archibald Forbes, the vehement, who whilhom used to be so proud in his contempt of American buncombe and shams, now hangs his haughty head in humiliation of spirit, and privately pours...
...English Literature. Mr. Perry, Sever...
Oscar Wilde lectures in the Music Hall, Boston, on Tuesday evening. Subject, "The English Renaissance...
...opening of the Greek play at the Globe Monday evening a gentleman fainted and did not recover consciousness for a long time. The combination of Greek and English probably proved too much for his bewildered senses...
...advantage of the students, should be rendered in the original Greek. But when the same play is given at a city theatre by professional actors, and for the benefit of the public at large, that the principal part should be delivered in Greek and the rest in English, seems but a poor and incongruous imitation of the manner in which our English tragedies have been lately represented by Rossi and Salvini. In their case there was some excuse, but in this we see none. Mr. Riddle would become as notorious, and make as much sensation by reading his lines...