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...manner excellent, is the story of "How I was not Married." The touch is light and graceful, and hence well adapted to the plot. There are, in the course of the story, many of the delicate turns which, when skilfully handled, always add a charm of their own. Julia's clever plot to outwit the maniac minister is a particularly happy idea...
...down a few selections of our literary labors to his memory." At the conclusion of his speech, Colonel Higginson read a short poem called "Dame Cragie." The Rev. Augustus M. Lord, a poet of considerable repute, then gave Longfellow's "The Chambered Nautilus." The first author introduced was Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, who read several extremely beautiful verses on the gondoliers of Venice, a poem entitled "Sunset on the Nile" and "A Legend of the Flies." One of Mrs. Howe's poems referred to the rivalry of the ladies of Venice in dressing their gondoliers in the most elegant liveries...
AUTHORS' READING.On Longfellow's birthday, Monday, Feb. 27, an authors' reading will be given in Sander's Theatre, beginning at 7.15 p. m. The readers will be Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, William Winter, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Townsend Trowbridge, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Boyle O Reilly, George Parsons Lathrop, Charles Follen Adams and Charlotte Fiske Bates. Augustus Mendon Lord will read Holmes' "Chambered Nautilus" and Lowell's "Tribute...
...held in Sander's Theatre on the evening of Feb. 27th, we feel that we are advocating a highly worthy object. It may, perhaps, be well to state that the reading is given in aid of the Longfellow Memorial Fund, and that several well-known authors, among them Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, have promised to read selections from their works. The entertainment cannot fail to be interesting, and the object is so worthy that we are anxious to impress on all that it is their duty to attend. Even if attendance on the part...
...held is so worthy of encouragement, and the interest in the matter is so great, that the affair cannot fail to be a success. Several well-known authors have shown their interest by offering to read selections from their own works. Among them are the following: Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Boyle O'Reilly, George Parsons Lathrop, Charles Follen Adams and Charlotte Fiske Bates...