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...germ of a smart, satirical idea died somewhere in the transposition of this play from the author's brain to the manuscript, to the stage. Instead of provocative and shrewd sophistication, it offered nothing but lifeless conversation. Such accomplished performers as Margalo Gillmore and Grant Mitchell seemed seriously...
...MANUSCRIPT OF ST. HELENA- Translated by Willard Parker-Appleton...
...save him from the misrepresentations he feared. In the main, he tells alike of his successes and his failures, his love for Josephine, the reason for his escape from Elba, etc. The sentences are short, sometimes overbearing, sometimes modest-a perfect tally with Napoleon's character. If the manuscript is a forgery-this is unlikely, for, as the translator remarks, Napoleon "went out of his way" to disavow it-it is only possible to congratulate the forger on his vicarious cerebrations...
This year's miracle play is to be a translation from an old French manuscript now preserved at Chantilly in contrast with the English plays which the club has given in the past two years. The translation was made by Eduardo Sanchez '26, who is also president of the Dramatic Club. The play concerns the events of the Nativity, portraying the appearance of the angels to the shepherds, the meeting of the Magi, the Magi before Herod and the adoration of the shepherds and the Magi. Sanchez' translation is in prose, although the original French is in meter
Besides these books containing Coleridge's manuscript notes, Mr. Perkins' gift makes the Harvard collection of first editions of his important writings very nearly complete. Among these is a file comprising all the issues of: "The Friend; a Literary, Moral, and Political Weekly Paper, excluding personal and party politics and the events of the day. Conducted by S. T. Coleridge, of Grasmere, Westmorland." These papers, dating from June 1, 1809, to March 16, 1810, are of the utmost rarity, and of the greatest importance to any student of English literature at that period...