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...Crothers, of Cambridge, preached last evening in Appleton Chapel, taking his text from the seventh verse of the nineteenth Psalm: "The law of the Lord is perfect...
...rather enter upon the absorbing study of religious growth in its relations with all other growth; bound by the same perfect law which rules all things. If faith, hope, love do exist, they exist not as accidents, but as natural products of definite forces...
...heroic firmness and skill, held the road to Chattanooga for six hours, against the whole strength of the victorious enemy. His force of 25,000 dwindled to 15,000. Ammunition gave out. But the gallant division repelled the last charge with cold steel, and withdrew at nightfall in perfect order. A grander resistance can not be found in the annals of history...
...above the standard usually set by an amateur cast. In particular the way in which Schurz played the role of Argan was noteworthy. In many places his acting was worthy of a high place upon the professional stage, and his reading of the French lines was almost perfect in accent...
...seriously faulty as a work of art, because the sweet and pungent realism of the Little Minister part of the book is mingled but not blended with the psendo-romance of Babby the Egyptian and her wonderful pranks. As "The Little Minister" is sadly inferior to the homogeneous perfection of "The Adventures of David Balfour" ("Kidnapped" included), so "The Raiders" and "The Men of the Moss Hags" are quite as sadly inferior in style, in unifying principle, and in suggestion of the past. Stevenson, a little romantic, but a perfect little romantic, has not equaled himself with the great romantics...