Word: magical
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Dates: during 1912-1912
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...served, and the entertainment will consist of music and readings. Professor I. L. Winter '86 and Mr. F. W. C. Hersey '99 will read from modern English authors. L. G. del Castillo '14 will play selections on the piano, and J. T. Lanman '15 will perform feats of "black magic...
...most striking article, by far, in the new number of the "Monthly" is that of Mr. Cuthbert Wright on "The Black Heaven." It deals with typical episodes in the history of black magic from the Middle Ages till the present day, and shows, on the part of the author, considerable knowledge of the subject and imaginative sympathy with the characters described. If exception may be occasionally taken to particular statements (such, for example, as the assumed identity of Bluebeard with Marshall or Retz), these are not matters of importance. Mr. Wright's style has freedom and richness...
...pedantry against him. Euripides as a thinker shows that he had not attained unity and harmony in himself although he had a nicety of observation and epithet. As a dramatist his technique is beyond our scope. As a poet he had many faults, but he had great poetical magic...
...talent. As the story goes, Zorika, a nobleman's daughter betrothed to a man of her own class, has sudden hankering toward a return to nature, so that she agrees to elope with Joszi, a Gypsy violinist. She is, however, prevailed upon by her old nurse to drink certain magic waters that will cause her to dream of her future life. The dream shows that her real happiness does not lie with the Gypsy lover, and she recovers from her infatuation, marrying the man of her father's choice...