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The subject of his lecture, "The Vikings," he was able to discuss from original researches which he has recently been making in Scandinavia. By means of manuscripts and the investigation of almost innumerable graves, he has been able to settle many doubtful points and overthrow false theories.
It was the Hotel Rambouillet with its assemblage of wits, afterwards so well painted by the pen of Moliere in his Precieuses Ridicules, which was called upon to render judgment upon the new play "Polyeuctes" by P. Corneille. Though even these dry, narrow critics were carried away by the power...
"To students of Shakspere there is much, even in the aesthetic criticism, that is now quite familiar; and yet the justification of the book appears not only in fresh and vivid restatements of well-known views, but in occasional entirely original discussions, with much fruitful suggestiveness concerning not only Shakspere...
"Of these, Morse, who graduated at Yale, invented the electric telegraph, and Bell the telephone. Dr. Morton discovered ether. Four were historians, and all Harvard graduates - Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman. The poets Emerson, Holmes and Lowell were also Harvard graduates; Longfellow and Hawthorne graduated from Bowdoin; Bryant studied at...
UNTIL the end of next week the Tremont Theatre offers the entire grand production of Offenbach's "La Grande Duchesse," with the very beautiful artiste, Miss Lillian Russell, in the title role. Miss Russell's chic, her dashing characterization, and her beauty all unite to her rendering of the becoming...