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...prose is on the whole better than the verse. The anonymous "Note on Carlyle," whether its doctrine is acceptable or not, shows competence and vigor. Mr. Fisher's "Lanky" is an unusually good story, exhibiting in a small space some skill in plot, character, setting and surprise. Mr. Scholle's "Fair at Lausanne," which in its paragraphing recalls the Boston American, is alive with good detail. Mr. Fay's "On Keeping a Diary" gives an impression of quaintness without affection, and abundance without waste. Of the editorials on the proposals of peace, the second is the more striking. The review...
...dumb shows we have seen are of the slap-stick, rough and tumble type which fill our vaudeville houses. Here, however, is a play in which a singular art has been carried to its height. We never miss the speaking, for we are absorbed in the delightfully foolish little plot and amazed at the grace of the whole thing. Pierrot's home and phrynette's boudoir furnish two admirable settings for an entire evolution of emotions and from nonsense to a tinge of tragedy, we are appealed to from a variety of feelings...
...popular pantomime. "A Daughter of the Gods," now playing at the Majestic Theatre, is evidently a production trying to equal the record set by D. W. Griffith, but William Fox, despite the amount of money expended and the miraculous care of detail shown, will have to seek a better plot around which to spend his efforts before we can take the palm from "The Birth of the Nation" and present it to this new thing for Boston...
...only story in the number is "A Literary Love Affair," by Mr. Rollins, who has dashed off eight full pages of love and adventure--or rather, a lapse of love and misadventure--absorbing all but three pages of the number. The plot is good and moves along well, but the style is not workmanlike. The piece is too long for its substance; it impresses one as being "padded," as though the writer had incorporated unimportant incidents merely to please his fancy or give his descriptive powers a fling. The ending is a trifle unintelligible, being either so obvious...
...encores from an audience whose applause was induced rather by a spontaneous appreciation of the score than by any duty as descendants of Erin's Isle--which element does not characterize Boston audiences (?)--to commend the spirit of the songs. Perhaps Mr. Blossom has not constructed so definite a plot as is his custom, but his book, which deals with the adventures of Berry O'Day in an attempt to place Ireland on an equality basis with all nations of the world, provides a romantic theme par excellence...