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...Boston Ideal Company will soon appear at one of the "home" theatres...
...reporter yesterday morning took breakfast at the Vendome with his friend, Mr. O. Wilde, and in the conversation which followed between the young men the poet said that on the previous evening he had met the most perfect ideal of aestheticism that he had yet seen in America. "This chawming creature," said he, "in both spirit and dress is the very daisy of idyllity." The reporter expressed a great yearning to know the name of this fortunate being. He was told that it is Dan'l Pratt - "Not Daniel," said Oscar, "but simplistically beautiful Dan'l." Immediately our reporter excused...
...Windy Day." The artist seems to have caught the spirit of the occasion - a solitary figure of a young girl on the beach, a few fishing hamlets in the perspective, and about all a breezy, chilly atmosphere - all show great ability with little material. There are heads without number, ideal, real, wise and otherwise. "A Saucy School Girl," by S. R. Burleigh; an "Ideal Head," by Fowler, and a weird, strangely effective, but well executed study called "Astarte," by F. W. Freer, and many others of equal merit. Passing across the common, one comes to Doll & Richards'. Here, on entering...
...timid that he hardly dares to write a line, unless surrounded by dictionaries, grammars, rhetorics, a "thesaurus," books of synonyms, etc. His spontaneity disappears; he looks upon originality as something for which he must never make the slightest attempt, and he comes to think he has attained the ideal when his writing reads like a catalogue, and when he has acquired a style, which, from its lack of individuality, is no style...
...never seen a girl's face so closely before. Even Loe's beauty was known to him more by imagination than by experience. Every one called her the belle of the country; and the fanciful Yung had fixed to her his ideal of female loveliness. Here was that ideal realized in another woman, and that woman in his arms...