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...would be interesting if it were original, instead of being older than the hills. It may be asked also whether the familiar anecdote would not have been more pleasing to the reader in a more fanciful form, instead of in this prosaic garb. The conceit of the plot does not harmonize with the author's treatment...
...Advocate contains the best story that has appeared in that periodical for a long time. Though the "Twentieth Century Martyr" savors a little of the burlesque and would require some toning down to satisfy certain sticklers about good taste yet it is exceedingly witty and ingenious. The plot is amusing and is worked out with snap. Certain allusions to a respectable English lady novelist of the early part of this century will be appreciated by most of the readers of the story...
...Tale of Compressed Vacuum" is another effective and amusing tale. The plot is original to say the least, and the climax is effectively reached...
...need be said of a play so familiar to theatre goers as Bronson Howard's "Henrietta" which was given at the Hollis last evening. The confusion of the three Henriettas is an amusing idea. and the play will serve to pass an evening more or less pleasantly. But the plot is essentially bad, and many of the scenes are simply and unnecessarily disagreable. Robson's acting is as amusing as ever, and the same as ever. There is nothing new in his conception of Bertie Vanalstyne, and perhaps his admirers will be glad of it. The rest of the company...
...amusing Cambridge tale. Professor Cohn then read the comedy "Le Voyage in Dieppe," by Wafflard and Fulgence, which the society is to bring out this spring. The time of the play is supposed to be in the beginning of this century, before the day of railroads, and the plot turns on the misadventures of an old Paris bourgeois, who, with his wife and daughter, starts on a trip to Dieppe to see the ocean, and by a series of intricate circumstances, finds himself the next morning in Paris instead of at his destination. The play is in three acts...