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...Greek newspaper has just been started in modern Athens...
...ordinary education of Pliny's time give a mental training as valuable as do our modern high schools and academies...
...true that Wordsworth "has no style"? [Quoted from preface to M. Arnold's "Selections from Wordsworth," xxii. Contra: Principal Shairp's "Aspects of Poetry;" Essay, Poetic Style in Modern English Poetry...
...play will be given as nearly as possible in the manner in which such a play would be given in the time of Augustus, although probably no masks will be used. The effort will be made to make the presentation rather an illustration than a modern dramatic entertainment...
...give as exact a reproduction of the play as possible, at the same time to make it accord with the culture of to-day. In the music, particularly, it is very hard to reconcile the many difficulties. A strict following of the old forms would hardly pass with a modern audience; it would sound ridiculous at the least, while it would be certainly pointless to introduce music as it is now. These obstacles, it is understood, have been overcome to a great extent and the music which has already been written is thought to be near enough to the ancient...