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MEMORIAL HALL begins to show signs of completion. The west vestibule has been scaffolded preparatory to putting up the stained glass next week. It is hoped that all the windows will be completed by the end of next month. The glass was procured in England, but the artistic work has...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

IT is with a feeling of great humility that I venture to express myself on the subject of Byron's dramas, and to beg my readers' forgiveness for differing in some points from Mr. Taine. I mention Mr. Taine, as his works have already assumed a very high position, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BYRON'S DRAMATIC WRITINGS. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

"Werner," in particular, is labored, its versification most prosaic, and in several places a literal paraphrase of the novel which supplied him with his idea. The "Deformed Transformed" is less so. Caesar is a very human devil, partaking more of a cynical adventurer than of a minion of the Prince...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BYRON'S DRAMATIC WRITINGS. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

No one would be so venturesome as to maintain that it inspires students very much to go to recitations, and the present coercion to our duty is only considered an evil because it is compulsion, we think, and it but occasionally conflicts with the inclination of any except the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUI BONO? | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

To penetrate the soul's most hidden parts;

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THREE GRAY SISTERS. | 3/13/1874 | See Source »