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...three short dramas chosen were written during the latter nineteenth century and have been produced with success on Paris Stages. The first play is entitled "La Joie Fait Peur," a dramatic comedy, written about 1860 by Madame Emile de Girardin, and the second is "Le Baiser" by Theodore de Banville, written about...
Americans would doubtless look on the inauguration of a policy of "Imperial Preference" with a mixture of pride and fear. They would be able to point out that the English economists of the nineteenth century who so soundly berated Americans for not adopting a policy of free trade were now deserted by their own countrymen. Still, it would hardly be pleasant to contemplate a triumph in economic theory which might seriously affect profitable trade which we flow enjoy in wheat cotton, and other raw materials. Since the passage of the Frozenly Tariff the United States is hardly in a position...
Even more remarkable gymnastics took place among the enrollment figures of some of the smaller courses: English 72, on English poets of the nineteenth century, heretofore a course of moderate attendance, drew a throng that jammed Emerson J and necessitated an overflow meeting in the larger expanses of Emerson...
...matter of fact, Anthony was filled with enthusiasm over an afternoon spent with the great English novelist and poet. He found him, he says, a wise and tolerant man, viewing, with clarity and profound wisdom, life and literature as he now sees them about him. This giant of the Nineteenth Century finds himself faithful to his gods; but interested in the facts of life as they are changing before him. He is not querulous; but of an absorbed old age which is akin to an eager youth. Among English writers, he advises both Walter de la Mare and John Galsworthy...
There may be people who still smile at the hottest June nineteenth and twentieth since 1884 and say that even such weather "stands in some rank of praise." The only possible occasion for such depressing optimism is the report of the doings of Mount Etna in Sicily. Granting that Italy could be no hotter than New England, yet such heat plus the temperature of molten lava must call up memories of Dante and his Inferno. Therefore the unselfish faith of the people, of Linguaglossa must be colossal, for they have approached within scorching distance of the lava to pray...